Heathrow scaffolds
Today in my series of photos from my travels: the beautiful scaffolding array that was holding up the roof at Heathrow Terminal One last month -- bamboo-thick pipes in safety yellow stretching off into infinity. Link
Today in my series of photos from my travels: the beautiful scaffolding array that was holding up the roof at Heathrow Terminal One last month -- bamboo-thick pipes in safety yellow stretching off into infinity. Link
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It is beautiful in a THX-1138 sort of way.
How long does it take to whiz through it on that moving sidewalk?
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A really long time, as it turns out -- Heathrow is HUGE! From landing to home, it takes me > 2h.
I was talking to a Londoner about the new terminal they're adding to Heathrow. He laughed and said it would be less of a terminal and more of a waiting room - a place where you could sit while waiting for your delayed flight to FINALLY take off.
I avoid Griefrow like the plague. They've turned Terminal One into a shopper's paradise by ripping out all the seats and waiting areas. Because airspace around Heathrow routinely runs at >98% utilization, delays are frequent. The airport is, as Cory says, HUGE, and it has the annoyingly over-the-top BAA security regs. If you're there to transfer between flights you need to allow about two hours, to be on the safe side -- preferably more -- and that's when the shopper's paradise turns into a traveller's hell because, frankly, how many shopping malls are you happy to spend three hours trapped inside? There's nothing to do but wander aimlessly among crappy overpriced luxury goods stores or nurse an overpriced beer in one of the bars, if you can get a seat.
those foam-clad pipes bring to mind a gigantic mcdonalds playplace
In America, it's illegal to take pictures in airports. (Or at least it's persecutable to do so.)
I have taken many pictures in airports, indeed of policemen in airports, without any trouble.