As far as long haul flights go, this British Airways one from Buenos Aires to London Heathrow wasn't too bad. The flight was going to be about half an hour early so the lights came on about 4am for the crew to serve some breakfast. In the end, the plane arrived about 15 minutes early in Terminal 5. We'd never been in this terminal before, the flight to Cancun at the beginning of our trip had left from Gatwick. The terminal was huge and took us ages to even get ...

After a day of laundry, paperwork, packing and re-packing, we finally managed to sit down to a glass of wine and relax about midnight. In the morning, we drove up to Edinburgh for our flight to Gatwick. Despite the cheap tickets, it was a surprise that British Airways still has a free full bar service on board...and the wine is not too bad either. If it wasn't for the ferocious tail wind hurtling us towards the airport in record time, we might have had time for...