Lawdy. What a to do! As if heading off for six weeks of fun and sun in India wasn't excitement enough we had a double dose of extra thrills this morning.
Woke early this morning and saw that there had been a light sprinkling of snow. Thirty minutes later it was snowing hard and settling. Hardly Storm Jonas but enough to make driving a bit tricky. Should we change our plans for getting to the airport?
D remembered to do the online check in that he should have done yesterday. "Your reference is not recognised". Panic! Reboot computer. No change. Call Emirates help desk. Hmmm! " Your flight today was cancelled because you have booked to fly from Heathrow to Singapore on 13th February.
Oh no we haven't. After holding for a few minutes we were told that we could still get our flights but that our prebooked pairs of seats had gone. Bum!
By now the snow was worse so we called number two daughter to cancel our lift and made our way to the station. Trains were running OK and we were soon on the way to Glasgow. Probably the emptiest train we will see for the next six weeks and no need to book in advance. We even got Senior Discount.
After a brisk march through the sleet to the bus station we found the Airport Express coach. The journey could best be summed up as Heavy Boots and No Prisoners. Arrived at the airport at around the time that we had planned to leave home.
Straight to the Emirates desk where we were able to confirm that we did indeed have tickets for the flights that we wanted and were able to salvage emergency exit seats for the first flight. No such luck for Dubai - Kolkata. Seats 3 rows apart from each other and the flight absolutely full.
Now. What to do to kill three hours at the airport?
Yaayyyy more R and D adventures... looking forward to reading. I'm sure someone will swap seats on the flight with you, ask around. Shame you can't get a longer stop in Dubai.. wave to me as you fly over! ;) When you come into land look to the left - you'll see my home.
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