Journey

It was actually raining when my driver arrived to pick me up at 6am on Wednesday morning!  The weather problem had some contribution towards making the journey to Heathrow take 2 and a quarter hours, but it still left me plenty of time - half an hour to get through security and traipse across to the furthest part of Terminal 2, and then half an hour for breakfast at the lounge.

The flight was routine, and I watched a couple of films (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Raiders of the Lost Ark).  Upon attempting to watch the first of those, it popped up a message asking me to ensure that nobody sitting near me might be offended by the content of the film!

Fortunately, I had a nicely private window seat!

I had the beef lunch, and then the snack for arrival was this rather curious "Beefburger Wellington" - sadly with cheese, which I scraped out.


We arrived on time.

 It was quite warm - 33C/91F.  The machine at immigration didn't want to read my passport, but let me put my name in and it found me anyway, so I was still able to walk past the massively long queues of people at immigration and then again at customs and straight out ... so I could wait 2 and a half hours for my train.  After a large iced coffee, I caught the train OK. 
Sometimes the views were boring industrial yards, or ramshackle homes, and occasionally pretty as these two pictures show.

After waiting at Penn Station for the 15 minutes late Light Rail service, the driver came along and said he was only going one stop and I'd have to change there.  I could have walked there in 5 minutes!





Still, the Light Rail stop  is only a 2 minute walk from the hotel, which makes it very convenient indeed.  I have a nice hotel room, on the Executive Floor, with access to the Executive Lounge, where I can have a continental style breakfast at no additional cost, and sit looking out the window down on Oriole Park which is next door to the hotel.

On my side of the building, my city view is as pictured.
Location: 401 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

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