Dear Mummy and Daddy, the nice man at Terminal 5 said you had already left for Barcelona without me or my brother, did we do something wrong again?

Apparently we are catching a plane with lots of other abandoned cases, but we don’t know where to, any idea?

Thanks to British Airways this poor little traveller will be spending a cold time on his own, still he has lots of warm clothes inside him and spare underwear. Shame we don’t!

The worlds slowest airline

Duly up at 03.30 and at the airport for 03.50 ready for the baggage check in to open at 04.00, or 04.10, no scrub that they actually didn’t bother opening until 04.20. Love the sign that states check in opens 2 hours before our flight at 06.00

On then to queue for 40 minutes with one check in desk open to drop your bags, but 3 customer service team members reminding you that you need to check in urgently!!!

And yes you then stand waiting for people with over weight bags, unpacking at the check in desk, so eventually we got to check in 10 minutes before boarding commences.

On then to fast pass “snail security” where some diligent plonker wanted to query why the fast pass had yesterdays date, in the end we had to say either let us through or don’t.

And queueing in a corridor for the plane, which if it takes off on time will be a bloody miracle!

Next stop Heathrow for a connecting flight in 60 minutes, yeh right!

And yes the plane took off 48 minutes late seeing us landing at 0735 instead of 0635. A dash across T5 to only just make the gate before it closed at 0750.

The luggage, well who knows but it looks like they are off on their own little holiday without us again, bugger.

When you is in Barcelona.

Here we are at Manchester Airport ready for an E A R L Y rise to fly to that there nodnoL and then onto Barcelona for a few days.

As can be seen Mrs Fogg has found somewhere to hide before our early evening meal where she sat explaining something I stopped listening to.

And as we sat eating, we did get to enjoy listening to one of our colonial cousins putting the world to rights with his poor oppressed partner just nodding and agreeing (“if your mother wants to see me she can get in a car, train or plane to come to me!”, “I don’t care about that man, the only time I wa t to hear about him is that he has died”)