<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466203712633.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3462" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466203712633-300x225.jpg" alt="wp-1466203712633.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>After a very early start, Dave drove me to Heathrow Terminal 5 and we arrived in plenty of time.  I was so early I had to wait nearly 2 hours before I could check in my bag. Unusually I was through security in less than 20 minutes which gave me a couple of hours for lunch and to wander around the terminal.

I had an inkling that the airplane was going to be a new experience because my seat was on the upper deck. Wow, it wasn't first class or even business class but my World Traveller seat (as BA call it) made it the most comfortable flight I've ever had. I hope my return flight is an <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380" target="_blank">Airbus A380</a>.

Three films (Hunger Games Mockingjay part 2, Room (a film Jane and I wanted to see but never made it), The Big Short) and ten and a half hours later I've landed at SFX. Unfortunately the flight came in just after a Chinese plane so it took an hour to get through immigration.

By 18:30 I'd been met by Clive and Tricia and heading for 14th Street. I managed to stay awake until 22:00 by which time I'd been awake 25 hours and needless to say after a quick unpack I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.