NEIL: We've finally got away after what seems a long time since we decided to take the plunge. Thank you to everyone at home for all the nice parting comments and expecially to Fiona for the tin of pea and ham soup!! We arrived at Heathrow about 5 hours before we flew out, so we had planty of chance to walk around with ourback packs on. Once we checked in I was asked to step out of the queue for a special security check where they took all sorts of xrays of my body from varying poses. The advantage of having this done, is that it sent me right to the front of the long queues. All I had to do was put my bag throught the xray machine - a straight forward task as i
... read more