2-1-2024 . TUESDAY . BANGALORE
Landed Bangalore at 4:20 in the morning .. immigration clearance and baggage collection took almost 90 minutes ..
Terminal 2 .. BANGALORE AIRPORT
( Courtesy: An Instagram Post )
Back home after a 18 day vacation at England and Scotland …
சொர்க்கமே என்றாலும் அது நம்மூரைப் போல வருமா, அட எந்நாடு என்றாலும் அது நம் நாட்டுக்கீடாகுமா..
1-JANUARY-2024 . MONDAY . LONDON
Got up at 5 .. self-coffee at Room .. packing suit .. one large, one big .. bath at 8 .. breakfast at 9 .. Croissants with butter, Cookies, toasted Bread with honey, fruits & Cranberry juice .. Bye-Bye to English breakfast
Checked out at 9:30 .. thru the enclosed walkway, walked to Terminal 4 .. train to Terminal 5 via Terminal 2&3 .. free for intra-terminal transit
From Station Platform the Lift leads straight into to Departures Concourse in 3rd floor. Through a self-service check-in machine, printed our boarding passes. Then dropped our bags. Here too, one has to put the luggage in the Weigh Scale. If the weight is within the permissible one, Tag automatically gets printed with ticket number, name, seat number and weight. We have to put the tag on the luggage and keep it in mover to carry on. Once the luggage moved, a slip is printed for our reference to claim. No human assistance, everything is automated. Then Security Screening. Then stepped into departure lounge. A huge one. Might be more than 100 shops in the lounge. Also eateries.
53 Gates are there, numbered thru A B C. Our Gate is C53. We are in A1.
From here, took APM (an underground Automated People Mover) to reach our Gate. Awaiting Boarding
Good Bye, London. See you.
Good Bye, London. See you.
Boarded … another 10 hours flying
While flying above Black Sea, captured the ‘Live Map’ in the In-Flight Entertainment System behind every seat.
On Flight. From London to Bangalore.
31-12-2023 . ŞUNDAY . LONDON
Got up at 6 .. self-coffee at hotel room itself .. web surfing .. Bath at 8 .. Breakfast at 9
Hotel clicks
Selfie at Hotel lobby and entrance
From Hotel to T4 thru the enclosed walkway
By Tube from T4 to Baker Street station
Just 3 minutes walk from Baker Street station to Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds
the 190-years-old wax museum .. It displays the waxworks of famous & historical figures, well known personalities as well popular film & television characters played by famous actors.
Pose with Respected Royal Family
Pose with Shakespeare, Obama, Sachin
Pose with James Bond(s)
Pose with Entertainment Personalities
Pose with Television Characters
Pose with some interesting waxworks
Selfie
Some interesting clicks
Had the privilege of having a pose with my all time favourite .. the Respected, admirable, adorable, charismatic Princess
Her Majesty Diana, the Princess of Wales
On exiting “Madame Tussaud’s”, the diagonally opposite building attracted us. The world famous “fictional” Detective Sherlock Holmes office.
A click.
Next to next building, this invited my attention …
Boarded a wrong-direction train at Baker Street station. Realised and got down at next station. Awaiting train. Towards T4 Station.
On a deep escalator at an Underground Station
Dinner .. when expressed about the non availability of choices in vegetarian dishes, the hostess did a wonderful thing. She made the Chef to prepare Palak Paneer with Naan and Jeera Rice. What a superb taste. In my 17days food experience at UK, tonight food is par excellence. Hats off to the Chef and the hostess. She did go one further step. When she asked us on dessert, I preferred curd. She hesitated a minute but then she gone somewhere and brought us the plain yogurt. And said, it’s her compliment. Oh what a nice gesture.
Before stepping into our Room, Selfie on corridor.
To BED
