Home to Cape Town

We left our house at 9;30am and took an easy drive to Ellie’s parents in Chelmsford. The traffic was good and fast flowing.
This is where we were leaving the car and I put it onto a trickle charge for the next 2 months.
We were excited about this trip but at the same time very apprehensive about our suitcase that we had added as an extra later on after making the booking. Last time we took 2 gas stoves for camping, this time we were taking all the electronics and tools to keep us off grid. Buying them in the UK and importing them ourselves had saved us £250 if we could get them through the airports.
In the case was a 50 piece socket set, a roll of spanner’s, wire cutters and strippers, 20 meters of 16 gauge wire with cut with connections on the end, a Dc to Dc charger, an Mppt solar controller, a smart shunt, double sided tape and multiple fuses.
Yes this would look like a giant bomb on the X-ray machine!!
We wrapped the suitcase in cling film and left Ellie’s parents at 4:30pm and got dropped at Chelmsford train station and then took the train to terminal 5 at Heathrow.
At Heathrow we were amazed that there were no BA staff and it was self check in and self weigh the bags. Our bag came in at 22kg and I wished I had put the last 2 spanner’s in to make the weight up.
I attached the label and the case rolled off and we wondered if we would ever see it again or would it get blown up.
Our flight left at 9:30pm and after dropping a couple of sleeping tablets we waited for the lights on the plane to go out and then we fell asleep.もっと詳しく