Jerez; Monday, 14 March, 2011

After breakfast and checking out I walked over to the bus stop and caught the bus back into town, making it to the coach station with a couple of minutes to spare before the airport bus left.

Unfortunately, I had forgotten that the first flight was an internal one, so arriving at the airport with two hours to spare was a little excessive, but it did mean that I was first in the queue for checkin!

After checking in and having a long wander around the very small departures lounge the flight was eventually called and, after some minor confusion with the queue getting muddled up with another queue for a Barcelona flight, boarded.

A very bumpy flight later we landed at Madrid. I had hoped that they would have been able to check my bags all the way through to London from Jerez, but unfortunately, in spite of Iberia and BA now being the same company, they couldn’t find a link to my booking, so I had to go through the whole baggage reclamation and then checking in again procedure.

Thankfully, I had four hours for the connection so I was thankful for something to take up some of the time.

After checking in for the second time in less than three hours, I wandered through to departures to await my flight.

Six hours later and bang on time the plane touched down at Heathrow and then a really freaky thing happened, I sailed through the airport.

In less than 20 minutes from landing I had disembarked, been bussed back to the terminal, been through immigration, collected my baggage and walked the quite long walk to the bus station to catch the bus back to Feltham and the train. Everything connected correctly, nothing was delayed, and nothing went wrong. I think that was the first time that had ever happened at that speed!