Home At Last

What an epic trip home. Bullet form because its laaate ....

• 20 minute walk in the snow/sleet from Hotel to Amsterdam Central Train station
• 30 minute train ride from Amsterdam Central to Schipol Airport
• checked in. Told to head immediately to gate as they put us on an earlier flight
• get to the gate to be told the flight has been delayed
• 30 minutes later the flight is cancelled (I really shouldn't have laughed earlier when I heard the easyjet flight had been cancelled) due to bad weather.
  
• Rebooked onto another flight boarding at 1930.
• Board the plane only to be told the airport has been shut because of conditions.
• 2 hours (yes, 2 HOURS) later the plane is off for a de-icing and we take off.
• 45 minute flight to Heathrow (instead of Gatwick where our original flight was intended)
• 20 minutes waiting on the tarmac at Heathrow while BA tried to find some steps to bring up to the plane
• 5 minute transfer bus ride to Terminal 4
• 20 minute queue in passport control
• 5 minute walk to Heathrow Express train terminal
• 5 minute train ride to Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3
• 10 minute walk to find the underground station
• 50 minute tube ride from Heathrow to South Kensington
• lost 2 quid in two different vending machines trying to buy a diet Coke (grrrr)
• 10 minute wait for the tube east to Victoria. Admittedly we were lucky in that we caught the last tube to Victoria. It was 1230 in the morning by this stage.
• 5 minute tube ride from South Kensington to Victoria
  
• 10 minute train ride from Victoria to Clapham Junction
• 5 minute walk home .....

All in all, from door to door took eight and a half hours. That is quite the trip home!
Anyway, enough whingeing, Amsterdam was great. Will post photos tomorrow.