London Heathrow Airport aka: LHR

Few airports are particularly fun, but most aren’t this awful. Woe to the connecting passenger: after being shuffled up, down, and around; riding a pointless shuttle bus; and being re-re-scanned by security, you’ll be dumped into a shopping mall and forbidden from proceeding to your gate until a short time before the flight actually departs.

It’s an airport. Nothing special. If you’re flying anywhere in Africa from the States, you’ll probably have a layover here. I was worried that it would be really confusing, because of it’s size, but it’s not.

5 hour layover on my way to and from Ireland.
Lots of fun hanging out there. haha.

I flew through LHR both on my way to Dublin and on the way back home (Canada).

At the beginning of the trip, I was dead tired after an overnight flight with very little sleep, so I didn’t much feel like taking in the atmosphere. I must say though, I had no trouble getting where I needed to go – a shuttle bus and a subway all just to get to the other side of the airport seems like a hassle, but I found everything to be very efficient.

On my way back home, I had no time for anything. I booked my connection a little too tightly, so I basically had to run!

Next time I fly through or if I get to visit London, I will make sure to give myself a few hours to walk around and check it all out. There certainly seems to be a lot going on, and as major hub, it’d be great for people watching.

Yup. I really have nothing against it, in fact I shouldn’t be surprised that it is huge, a bit hard to get around and generally an involved experience no matter how you slice it. I just remember most, though, the one time years ago that our delayed flight - which had to stop at Manchester unexpectedly while the radar was being fixed over at Heathrow’s control tower or something - finally landed, had to pull all the way around the entire complex, got up to our gate and then…the doorway jammed and we couldn’t leave the plane. There were complaints.

Don’t fly through the UK. They’ve implemented some new anti-terrorism measures that are a real pain to travelers.

Heathrow of course changed my life because it was the stop over on the way to Paris, on the way to several of my trips to Africa. I just love the prim and proper uniforms of the scanners, and I adore the shops with the Paddington doo dads.

I do hope though some day to exit Heathrow and see actual parts of the country!

Very busy, very packed. Was rushed through and went to customs. People watching is fun, but be careful. Enjoy yourself and keep an eye on your stuff.

It’s where I met my uncle for the first time.

my number one place for bursting down crying in public (to a really embarassing level). LOL, sorry but this airport is such an emotional place for Mark (my husband) and I!
:-(

However, when you are arriving they are the happiest place to be! Big time public display of affection! :-P