Round The World and other travels

A frequent flyer's collection of trip diaries

This is: Round The World 2006-07

A final short hop

Yes, it was another of those days that must have started at some point during a flight :-

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Manchester Airport, not for the first time, proved to be a very strange place to be in transit. I and a couple of other passengers tried to follow the transfer signs, but we were intercepted and asked to do strange things such as go to the normal Passport Control desks then back-track through the queuing people once we'd been seen there   Anyway, I eventually made it to the familiar territory of the BA Terraces lounge, which I've always thought is one of the better examples of its type outside London, and I waited there for my first-ever flight with the newly-formed BA Connect.

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In contrast to my experience three weeks previously, my suitcase appeared - and quickly too! In fact the whole process of getting home, which could have been quite messy without the car, worked remarkably smoothly. Two bus rides and a train journey later, I'd made it home by a very creditable 1130. Part 2 was over and the detailed planning could begin for Part 3!