Re: What's Going on Around here?

In article <WYCdndj7xsAwkAPfRVn-uQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, mom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mom)
wrote:

>
> >> >> > I haven't been lurking Alan, I've been busy. Happy Tuesday.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Mom
> >> >>
> >> >> Oh, and I booked my flight and will be laying over at Heathrow for 3
> >> >> hours
> >> >> before landing in Frankfurt.
> >> >>
> >> >> Mom
> >> >
> >> > Do I need to wear that pretty black uniform or will a jean jacket and
> >> > jeans do?
> >> > I know how you like uniforms. LOL
> >> >
> >> > Alan
> >>
> >> Jean jacket and jeans will be fine. The only problem is.......it's pretty
> >> early in the morning.
> >>
> >> Mom
> >
> > Not a 3am clandestine meeting, Mom? It makes things a lot easier for
> > traffic and
> > parking though :-)
> >
> > Alan
>
> No, I will be there from 6:20 a.m. to 9:05 a.m. It really doesn't give me a
> lot of time as I will want to be at the gate by 8:15. How big is Heathrow?
>
> Mom

It's maybe a half hour drive right round the perimeter fence, but longer in
heavy traffic, and there are four terminals, although terminal four is freight
only, and do you have to go from one to the other? Here's a map:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=507500&y=175500&z=1&sv=507500,175500&st=
4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=507500&ay=175500

I guess that makes it approximately four square miles, which would make it 16
miles round the perimeter fence, which at 30 mph (the current speed limit) is
about an half hour drive. But terminals one two and three are all joined
together with those moving footways, like flattened out escalators, and near the
multi-story car park, and the food places are all inside the building, and
somehow the only time I go to the passenger terminals is to meet somebody with
an American accent :-)

And getting there at 6.20 is easy, it's getting out again around 8.15 that
becomes a problem, but then I could go up to the roof of the multi-story car and
wave as you took off and you couldn't miss seeing my pretty red car with me
stood waving next to it, and then I would have no traffic problems at all,
after 9.30.

And I could even take pictures of your plane taking off and put them on my blue
sky page, so everybody back home would know that you had arrived and taken off
again safely, and you would be able to download them too. I have to reduce them
to 200Kbs to put them on the web-site, which reduces the quality but they still
look OK to the people who looked at them.

And it's a good job that Paul has me in a kill-file, or he would come and give
me that punch on the nose he promised :-) But he wouldn't cos at Heathrow, there
are security cameras everywhere, which also means you know you'll be safe
meeting me there. How come he isn't coming to meet you anyway, or has he already
offered in ash-sea?

Alan
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