4 September 3:30p at London Heathrow Airport
So tired and ill feeling after not much no-good sleep on my overnight flight. It doesn’t really surprise me since I was so freaked out trying to get things wrapped up before I left – both at work and home. In concept, the only things I should need are my passport and a cash card, but it never seems to work that way… I snatched the British Airways eye mask (they were going to throw it away anyway, right?) and tried to catch some ZZZs at the holding pen here.

I had lunch at Gordon Ramsay’s Plane Food – a nice, retro-modern lounge overlooking the tarmac. Ginger ale, water, and a delicious white onion risotto with dolcelatte cheese and spring onion. I keep feeling like he will run out from behind the bar and yell ‘dirty bowl’ as he did at some poor sap in the first season of Hell’s Kitchen.

(Even though my bowl wasn’t dirty, btw).

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