The plane loaded up on time, but then sat on the runway for about 45 minutes for our turn to take off. This was the first time flying with BA, I'm sure they all try to outdo each other with crap food, at least I got 2 cans of beer out of them which nearly got spilt due to turbulence. It's not a very long flight this one at 7 hours and they hadn't squashed the seats together too much in cattle class.
Even though we were about 45 minutes late leaving is caught up most of the time, so arrived only 10 minutes late at 7am, this was also our first time at terminal 5 so you have to get a train for the 1 minute ride to baggage claim and with the number of people crammed in this isn't the best idea, you could probably walk in the amount of time we stood there but this is the only way you can go.
The bag came out with more boot prints on it as well, so I'm glad we didn't buy anything that was breakable, by 8 o'clock we were in the taxi heading home arriving just about 9:40.
And so ends Philly, we missed out some places we had planned due to the heat, you don't want to be wandering around the zoo when it feels like 40 centigrade and others didn't seem worth the expense of going in but everything else sort of went to plan, we could have got a few more things done quicker if the bus service wasn't crap with big gaps in the service, but they were nice and cool inside with the AC on and windows that don't open, the only other problem with the buses is they all drive like a bastard and with hard shiny plastic seats it can be difficult trying not to slide out of it.
My parting photo will be of the temperatures we had each day made into a graph with the RealFeel temp as well. Perhaps with a little less heat we could have got a bit more done as well, but this seems to be the case every time we go on holiday, I think we have only had one vacation where it wasn't hot and that was New York City in November.
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| Temperatures are centigrade |
Adios Philly 2019, and thanks for reading.
Con Burnes
