TT to Airport 2017
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 20 Sep 2017 22:57
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Team Tinson to Heathrow Airport
 Our final ‘farewell’ of 2017 was to TT
(Team Tinson – Kate, Mark, Jack and Seth) before they
went off to school and work.
 Our line-up
minus my ‘office bag’. We spent the day emailing, ordering stuff to be sent to
Beez, showers, smellies into case and time flew.
 Quarter past three our two lovely
valet men were hard at it. Steam cleaning the seats
brought the interior up beautifully for her new owner – Kate.
  Mark was home to take us to Heathrow
at four o’clock. We needed our full three hours to get all the cases, two with
dodgy-shaped metal objects I was concerned would raise questions and to queue at
the return of VAT office. Well, bags in, no problems and getting through
Security was not too bad but Bear had his bag rummaged. I went through the
sniffy machine and had a cursory pat-down but my bags were unrummaged, except
that I forgot to take my IPad out as I never usually travel with it. Oooops,
that went through the xray on its own but all was well. The very nice people
were very friendly and chatted.
A lovely lady had told us not to
bother with the VAT office before bag drop as the queue was immense of about two
hours, she had advised us to use the one beyond Security. Down we went and we
were the only people in front of a lady who stamped our receipt with an “enjoy
your flight”. Receipt in envelope, post box found and then down the longest, tallest escalator we have ever been on. At the
bottom a hologram lady told us which train to get on
(for some unknown reason I cannot put my usual black frames around these two
pictures)............out of the train, time for a drink. On the plane for the
thirteen hour flight, gate left on time but take-off a little late due to the
immense distance we had to taxi. Our smashing stewardess, Sarah looked after us
beautifully.
ALL IN ALL VERY
STRAIGHTFORWARD
TT AND PARKER DID US
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