Despite an evening arrival in Bangkok, we still managed to get to our hotel within 2 hours of touching down - pity we couldn't manage the same at Heathrow. We only had time for dinner, sleep, repacking - again - and breakfast before we headed back to the airport and our EVA air flight to Heathrow.
Didn't seem to be so many packs of single men on the return journey and the dayflight was relatively painless - even managed to watch a couple of movies. Unfortunately our arrival at Heathrow confirmed why it is an airport to be avoided at all times. It took us 60 minutes from landing to make it to the immigration desk - huge number of UK and EU citizens being herded around like cattle in a terminal which is always like a construction site. At least - I thought - our baggage would be waiting for us when we had been processed by the Border Agency officer who could neither smile or respond while examining my passport. I felt a degree of pity for the weegie at the next desk who had drunk at least half of his litre of duty free vodka and greeted the officer with a cheery 'all right pal, how's it going' and then couldn't understand that he was supposed to hand over his passport. There was still no sign of him in the baggage hall 20 minutes later when our bags finally appeared.
Next year we will have to find a better route which allows us to avoid Heathrow altogether!
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