13/10/09 - A Long Journey

Once again I was up at 4am to get my flight back to London. Tuomo was awesome in that he also got up at 4am to take me to the airport before going to work. I'm very thankful for this because if I thought the price of public transport or parking was bad, the cost of taxis stunned me. It would have cost me 66 euros to get to the ariport by taxi which at this point is essentially £66. Finland is a realy beautiful country but they seem to been doing their damnest to ensure that noone can see it.

The flight was eary which was good but the food during the flight was dire. I asked for the bacon roll but they managed to get this mixed up with some cream cheese/apricot abomination which I failed to notice until I took a bite.

When I arrived in Heathrow I followed the sign for hotel reservations which led me outside to the bus stops perplexingly enough so I asked the first driver I found if he knew where I should have gone. It turns out the signs didn't go in remotely the right direction. They must have changed the layout recently.

At the hotel desk I must have looked wealthy because without batting and eyelid the guy told me that it costs £350 and up to stay the night at the airport hotels. After colecting my jaw from the floor I managed to find a more reasonably priced room at a mere £113 a bit further from the airport. The room was nice but all I wanted was a place to sleep...