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Heathrow… and fly

nuria — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:49:34 +0000

And again today we got up at 4.20 am with not many hours of sleep and with a break at 12.00pm when someone entered in our room!! That was a shock! Apparently two Torres had booked on the same night, what a coincidence.

No raining nor snowing, so the 10 minutes walk to Paddinton train station is refreshing. We decided to pay the extra for the Heathrow express which takes only 15 m inutes. So we took it at 5.25 am and at 5.40 sharp we arrived in Terminal 1-3. The terminal 3 A is new and apparently is all Virgin Atlantic. We tried to do the automatic check in with the machines, but our passport is not accepted: oh oh!! A very nice flight attendant comes to the rescue, she is Amy, what a nice name! She types in and out, checks our passports, comes and goes, and yeah the problem is the two surnames in our spanish passport… She said that it was OK, but next time make sure your name is Diezungo. Ok madam!

And now here we are wating for the gate number to appear. We have had a full day breakfast baguel with tea and coffee and a tiny orange juice. Now is time to read the San Francisco small guide for Dani, and The French Polinesia one for nuria.

Leo

dani — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:02:05 +0000

Around 7, just 5 min after we arrived to the hotel, and Nuria fell exhausted in bed, I went to meet my dear friend Leo. We met in Paddington and we went to have a beer and catch up. It was great to see my friend.

Beth

nuria — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:38:50 +0000

Beth took the day off to fight her highs-phobia in St paul’s cathedral followed by a great burger with south African wine. Then a bit of history on Elizabethean, Georgian architecture during a short walk to Tatem Modern. Another walk under the rain and back to our hotel which ended up being quite good quality, though the shower had no pression and the temperature was at 28 degrees maximum, but very much appreciated after the snowny weather first in Gva and then during the afternoon in London.

Nuria stayed in the hotel with pain in her knee as she did not see 3 steps when she opened a door in the laberintic hotel. Dani went to Paddington to meet Leonardo and have another beer.

Snow storm in Geneva

dani — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:32:11 +0000

We are in the easyjet flight to Gatwick. It should have taken off 35 min ago but… snow storm…so we are in the process of icing crock. I have already disconnected the phone so I will probably publish it from London.
After nearly one hour we took off. It was curious to take off with a layer of a sticky gel in the middle of a white piste full of trucks fighting against the snow. We finally made it though.
Now try to sleep a bit and once we land in Gatwick I will look for a hot spot.

Day 1 – Geneva London

dani — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:37:49 +0000

Thursday, day 1
It is 5:40am and we are enjoying a muffin a cheese cake, coffee and tea at Geneva airport. We woke up at 4:20 and hurried to ITC where we left the car and walked to the station.