[Magdalen] Safe landing

[Christopher Hart]

Welcome, Roger. Sorry you won't be in my area, but hoping you have another
very enjoyable USA visit.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:17 AM, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> The journey to Heathrow was a bit fraught with the volume of traffic
> causing a lot of stop-start but I arrived at the airport about an hour
> later than planned.  Passage through security was smooth so an hour later
> still I was sitting having breakfast air-side in the terminal.
> A bit of turbulence mid-flight aThe nd a distinct lack of land to see
> until approaching the US-Canadian border. The food and wine on BA is much
> better than I experienced last year on United. The passage through
> Immigration was the easiest I have experienced in my five trips to the USA.
> Perhaps it helped having just washed my hands but the machine read my
> finger-prints quite quickly (only four fingers of right hand this time) and
> I remembered to take my spectacles off before it took my picture and
> printed out my receipt. A few questions from the officer as he stamped my
> passport and I was on my way to baggage reclaim and out of the door 50
> minutes after wheels down, which included the long taxi to Terminal 5
> Outside the terminal it is clearly construction season as I waited for the
> hotel shuttle.  An early night as my body was refusing to stay awake after
> what would have been midnight at home, byt which time I had been up for 19
> hours, then fitful sleep for the second half of the night, which is why I
> am writing this so early in the morning over my second cup of coffee.
> Roger
>



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