Well in the effort to save many dollars on travel for missions, sometimes we have layovers that seem a bit odd or long. This trip we begin at New York's JFK airport as usual, have a bite to eat, meet most of the team (2 were meeting us in South Africa as they were in Uganda the first half of the month) and off we go.
Across the pond to London's Heathrow airport for an 11 hour layover. Not wanting to be stuffed in the airport for that many hours 8 of the 10 of us stowed our luggage and headed into London via the London Underground or Tube.
We did pre-plan this bit of excursion with sites to see and aprox time needed to carry out our plan. Well we soon found out that some of our tube routes were not running on Saturday - but this did not dampen or delay us, we just rearranged our route and walked a lot.
We happened upon Buckingham Palace just prior to the changing of the guard (which they no longer do the big pomp and circumstance ceremony about every day anymore). We were not able to see really well, but got a taste for the ceremony around it all.
A bit of fish and chips for lunch and off to Trafalger Square, Big Ben, House of Parliment, Westminster Abbey (which unforetunately closed 30 minutes prior to our arrival) and the London Eye over the Thames. I know I am probably missing something here, but these are the highlights. We had a very pleasant day with some sunshine and just a sprinkle of rain. The team was able to get to know each other a bit and tire out before the long leg of travel, 11 hours from Heathrow to Johanesburg South Africa.
Across the pond to London's Heathrow airport for an 11 hour layover. Not wanting to be stuffed in the airport for that many hours 8 of the 10 of us stowed our luggage and headed into London via the London Underground or Tube.
We did pre-plan this bit of excursion with sites to see and aprox time needed to carry out our plan. Well we soon found out that some of our tube routes were not running on Saturday - but this did not dampen or delay us, we just rearranged our route and walked a lot.
We happened upon Buckingham Palace just prior to the changing of the guard (which they no longer do the big pomp and circumstance ceremony about every day anymore). We were not able to see really well, but got a taste for the ceremony around it all.
A bit of fish and chips for lunch and off to Trafalger Square, Big Ben, House of Parliment, Westminster Abbey (which unforetunately closed 30 minutes prior to our arrival) and the London Eye over the Thames. I know I am probably missing something here, but these are the highlights. We had a very pleasant day with some sunshine and just a sprinkle of rain. The team was able to get to know each other a bit and tire out before the long leg of travel, 11 hours from Heathrow to Johanesburg South Africa.
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