Fri 27THNov Alarm off at 0530…although we’d both been waiting for it to go off for an hour, we got up, dressed, a quick coffee and caught our pod to Terminal 5 – Heathrow. Pod is just like a little 4 person pod on a train track that goes from terminal 5 to parking lot B..and therefore Thistle Hotel. It’s great and meant that we didn’t have far to go in the morning. Not a long queue, got through bag drop, customs and security with plenty of time to spare..so a very relaxed start to the trip. Stunning flight over the Alps and then suddenly as the alps finished, the land was completely flat….no gradual height change…just end of mountains and then flat land. Landed and cleared in Venice quickly and with no bother, then had
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