With the volcano in Iceland still erupting, flights in and out of the UK are still grounded indefinitely.
I was just watching news video footage of MSNBC where it shows the chaos at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, which is where we were last Wednesday. It’s so strange looking at the footage and thinking, “gosh, we were only there a few days ago”. People are stranded and are actually sleeping rough at the airport because they can’t get home. Lovely Americans are offering their homes to stranded passengers as people run out of money and can no longer afford a hotel.
Seeing the chaos at Newark International really does make me count my lucky stars that we made it home okay. As I said previously, we landed at Heathrow at 8am on Thursday morning, by 11am all flights were cancelled. And my travelling partner wanted to take advantage of Continental bumping three passengers on to the later flight as they had overbooked and were offering any takers a $500 voucher towards their next flight. Pfft, that wouldn’t have done me much good if we did get stranded, would it?
Anyway, it is good to be back home. Good thoughts going out to those who weren’t so lucky.