Almost there

Having watched the sun setting over Goose Bay in Labrador, we have now made it as far as the transit lounge in Terminal 2 at Heathrow waiting for our flight home to Shannon. Our overnight flight from Toronto was as good as can be expected – the breakfast bacon and egg muffin was a particular treat.

Having flown in all the large long haul aircraft over a good number of years, the upper deck of a 747-400 is definitely my favourite place to sit. I have decided that I will try to avoid the A380 if I can, because there are just too many people.

I still do not understand why airport designers and operators are unable to devise a boarding layout which avoids the usual scrum at the boarding gate. We have had the same experience in terminals 3 and 5 at Heathrow as we have had in Schiphol, Toronto, and Cape Town to name just a few. I think they could probably learn some lessons from Ryanair and the set up at Gatwick South terminal.

Our Canadian trip has been very enjoyable and has helped us avoid a fairly wet June at home. We have also avoided most of the fuss leading up to the EU referendum in the UK although we will probably be dealing with the consequences for a few years to come. It beggars belief that David Cameron and his advisors could have got their campaign so wrong. From everything I have read since the result was announced it seems clear that it was not so much a win for the leave campaign as an outright loss by the Remain team.

Braeden's decision to support Iceland at Euro 2016 was obviously justified - pity he didn't put some money on them as well - there must have been a good profit to have been made. So Ireland, N. Ireland and England have all gone home and left Wales to carry the flag - all par for the course I guess.

Looking forward to getting home - Thanks again to Andi & Stan and Jim and Suzanne and everyone else along the way who helped us have such a good time.