New York; Wednesday, 21 December, 2022

The overnight flight was uneventful, and it looked like we had pulled back a bit of time on the crossing, only to have to stack to the South West of London for a little while meaning we still ended up being an hour late on landing.

Thankfully it was a smooth journey through the airport to baggage reclaim where the final potential for something to go wrong sat. Over the weekend just gone there had been horror stories of people waiting up to 4 hours to get their bags, so it was a bit of a worry how long we’d have to wait. In the end the bags arrived less than 30 minutes after we landed and only after about 10 minutes of waiting.

With my bags collected I headed up to the Arrivals lounge for a shower and a quick breakfast before heading back to the same hotel I’d stayed at the previous Wednesday evening to use as a day office so I could get straight to work before heading home at the end of the working day.