Sunday 13th July - Depart for London

Today is the day that we have to depart for London. The plane leaves at about 6:00pm so we have to leave here at quarter to 3.



We left Ian's place at about 2:45 and drove down over the Tappan Zee bridge

through all the increasing traffic











and then the Whitestone Bridge to the John F Kennedy airport.










Doing the online check-in process ended up being a bit of a fiasco as when it got to the end it said, "Ask for assistance", but by the time someone came to have a look it had timed out and gone back to the welcome screen. The assistant brought another passenger over, so we had to wait till she had been fixed up before we could start again. The problem turned out to be whether we had a visa for the UK? It turned out that as we had a return ticket it wasn't an issue. We were able to continue on to Gate 14 and our waiting plane a Boeing 777-300.
We we were due to leave at 6:30pm, but because of a "curfew" at Heathrow on aircraft arriving before 6:00am and weather issues at JFK, we didn't actually take-off till 8:30!

On board I watched Space Odyssey 2001 and a couple of other less memorable movies.
We travelled at 1000kph, at 30000m and it took about 6 hours in a Beoing 777-300.

This is a photo I took through the airport lounge window.

The arrival at Heathrow went well, but we had to walk for miles, both bags arrived at the same time. Mary-Ann's had been opened by TAS who left a greeting card!