Albury to London 26.6.17

We left home at 8am this morning and the sun was shinning.  John had received a message from Rob at 6.30am saying that it was clear of fog at the airport and to have a great trip !!! I was a little less convinced that there wouldn't be any fog - I was right !! We drove to Kay's and she took us to the airport, by this time the fog had started to roll in.  The flight was already delayed for an hour.  The fog got thicker and at one stage we couldn't even see the runway !




Our flight was further delayed - we finally left Albury at approximately 1.30pm .  Our flight to Singapore was changed from 1.10pm to 6.05pm. We arrived in Singapore at 12.35 (Singapore time) and the new flight we had been booked on was due to take off at 1.05am.  The flight was then delayed, for over 1 1/2 hrs, waiting for passengers (us and quite a few others)and baggage from the incoming flight.   Both flights were OK, but had stages of turbulence, enough to suspend inflight service.  We arrived at Heathrow in London to long (40min) queues at Immigration.  As I had meet and  assist, John left Immigration and was to meet me at the baggage claim.  There was no sign of him when I got to baggage claim - I collected the luggage and waited and waited !!! After about 15 mins, I was becoming concerned and went to the Singapore Airlines desk, where I was told he had contacted them, as he had walked straight out of the airport without me or the luggage !!! great start John!!! The taxi from Heathrow to our apartment took over an hour (and was quite expensive).  The travel time from door to door was approximately 36 hrs.  After a shower, we caught the No. 15 Bus into Trafalgar Square, had some afternoon tea, wandered around for a while, then decided we couldn't do any more ! caught the bus back, had a drink a the local pub, walked across the road had a pizza and were back in the apartment in bed by 8.15pm.