Day 23 - Dodging War Zones

It was a long often bumpy 12 hour 51 minute flight before we finally landed at a grey Heathrow Airport. The flight had taken us relatively close to Tehran and Beirut, which is always comforting.
Upon landing we were concerned that we only had 70 minutes to catch our £5 fare 8am National Express coach back to Hickstead.

We shouldn’t have worried, we had sped through immigration, baggage reclaim and customs and were sitting in the coach waiting room by 7.30am. This gave us time for a shared coffee, a sausage in a roll and for me to wish my mum a Happy Mother’s Day.

We went out to Bay 13 on the coach forecourt at 7.55am to board our coach. The coach sitting in the Bay 13 was showing it was going to Gatwick, but not onward to Brighton via Hickstead.

We were notified that our coach had already departed. My initial reaction was to blame National Express for another f@ck-up until I was informed that our tickets showed the coach was actually due to depart at 7.55am. It obviously left minutes early, but we didn’t really have a leg to stand on because we were late, albeit by seconds.

After a bit of negotiation, we boarded the 8am coach to Gatwick, got a train to Haywards Heath, went food shopping in Waitrose, caught a taxi home and walked through our front door at 10.20am. The journey, door to door, took 30 hours and 50 minutes.

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