Tuesday, July 1
Today was a big travel day - London to New York. We had to finish writing and posting some postcards then we took a cab from our apartment to Paddington Station where we caught the Heathrow Express train. The traffic was heavy even at that time so the cab ride took as long as the train ride! On international travel days you expect to sit around waiting so we were prepared for a "relaxing" day.
Goodbye Picadilly, farewell Leicester Square - until the next trip.
This was our first visit to Heathrow's Terminal 5 and, following a smooth check-in with British Airways, we proceeded to go through the Security area straight away. The only hiccup was that Noelle, without thinking, had packed her tubes of water colour paints in her carry-on bag, so her little case went down another conveyor for further checking. She had to pull everything out while the security man checked for the suspicious item/s. Luckily, they were all small tubes under 100ml so none were confiscated.
BA started boarding on time and we were all set for an on-time departure when we were informed that there was a problem with the baggage hold. Two hours later we finally took off, and therefore arrived 2 hours late! It was 1am London time but only 8pm NY time when we touched down, but having been fed quite well on the flight we decided that we would have an early night once we got to our hotel. This was early for NY but it was about 3:30am London time when we got to bed!
At least we had a lovely room and a very inviting bed.
The Michelangelo Hotel, cnr West 51st and 7th Ave - fantastic location!
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