Day 7. Saturday 2^nd June, 2007.

Left the hotel at 07.55 on the Limousine bus. One of the announcements on the bus asks passengers to switch their mobile phones to silent mode, and to refrain from speaking on their phones as it may annoy other passengers! Arrived at Narita by 09.30 and checked in amazingly quickly. We were assisted in using an automatic check in machine which scanned our passports and printed boarding passes. Still had to check in the cases by hand, though. The flight appeared to be full, other than that all went well. Heathrow looked shabby in comparison to Narita. We were through passport control very quickly, but the queue for non-European passport holders was very long. The wait for baggage was not too bad, 20 or 30 minutes, not bad. As the plane had landed a little early – at about 16.10 – we were on the way in our Ford Focus by 10 to 6 and reached E & V’s around 10 past 7, quite a bit earlier than we had expected.

Vee had popped out to the surgery as she wanted to check on a sick puppy, but was soon back and rustled up an nice light supper, salad, cold meat and a variety of rolls and cheeses that we were not really able to justice to. Then a bit of unpacking and to bed.