After a refreshing night's sleep we caught another little trolley car along the enclosed walkways across the road to the airport where we checked in our luggage and bought some brekky before our long flight to London.

The plane was barely half full, giving us room to spread out. We caught the Heathrow Express to Paddington, and had a short walk to our hotel to find we have a large apartment this time with a separate kitchen (a longer stay than last time when we had a basic hotel room). This hotel is quite basic and the furnishings dated, but it is clean and good value, and very handy to Paddington station which will be the hub of our London explorations for this trip. We bought a few basic groceries and our oyster cards for this week's travel, and settled in.