Travel from Germany to Heathrow, Tuesday.

A lot happened today. We don't have any photos to show, as it was full on.

We were up at 6, breakfast with Annette & Georg at 6:30 . It was sad saying goodbye to Annette and Hannas the cat. We left the house in Georg's car at 7:15am. After taking the backroads we reached the Frankfurt autobahn, where there is no speed limit. It was a bit scary how some of the locals drive!

We reached the Frankfurt Airport without major incident, and drove to the recently opened, terminal 2. Georg parked the car and kindly saw us at the right check-in counter before he headed back home.

The airport security were the most detailed that we had encountered.

Doug had forgotten to pack his Swiss Army knife in the big suitcases and surprisingly, they let him keep it.

The flight was a little over an hour to Heathrow Terminal 5. We landed at about 12:30, then encountered, yet again, the queues for the non-EU passport holders. Only half an hour this time, and we then found our bags on the carousel despite the Terminal 5 computer declaring they didn't exist.

We took the underground into the city to Waterloo station. Trying to move heavy bags through the automatic gates caused failure of the second bag's towing handle, so Doug has since then been pulling both bags with bent knees. (Not a pretty sight!)

We purchased tickets for Reading and found the 15:30 train. Our bags and ourselves took 5 seats, but no-one seemed to mind as there was no other place for them.

At Reading we decided to take a taxi instead of walking 1 km with bent knees, and we were delivered to the Donnington House Hotel in the mostly standstill evening traffic. The hotel has no lift, as seems to be usual, but the desk clerk helped with our 40 kg up two levels.

Dinner in the local pub "Up in Arms' was good value and ended our day.(We're rather tired - bed looks good!)

Tomorrow will be the final day of our holiday. We plan on visiting the town that the Coxheads came from. (My paternal great-great grandfather).