The beer food samples made it through security...yeah!

We had the pleasure to once again travel with the Friendly Limousine Bus to get to the airport (we also took this bus when we arrived in Tokyo). It’s very convinient for visitors that my brother has a fancy and large hotel just a two minute walk from his house :o)

Before arriving at the airport the bus stopped at a security check point just outside the terminal which was quite interesting. We had our passports checked and they did some kind of second long check of the luggage in the luggage compartments. I still don’t know what the security check was for since I doupt that they could discover anything dangerous in our luggage that quickly…maybe they would if there had been dogs involved in the process.

A very very very happy guy helped us at the baggage drop. He must really get wrinkles if he smiles that hard all through his work days.

I was sort of worried about going through security with my beer food samples that were to heavy to put in my checked in suitcase. And I guess the customs found them suspicious because they wanted to go through the carry on suitcase manually after the screening and the only thing they were after was the beer food samples. Luckily, when the custom official discovered what it was he let me off the hook.

Beer food samples.

I had planned to sleep lots on the long flight…but that didn’t happen. I watched four movies instead, one action movie and three romantic comedies. Rickard who wanted to watch as many movies as possible slept more than I did, but

I still think he managed to watch four as well.

We had lots of time at Heathrow to pass through security which was good since we ended up in the queue behind a lot of Japanese people from our plane of which some had a difficult time understanding the English instructions from the customs official. My beer food samples went through the security screening this time … but it took some extra time for the suitcase to come through. I was glad, since it would have been more difficult to describe what it was to the British customs than it was for the Japanese customs since they are used to seeing food samples everywhere.

I had some British pounds with me that we spent at … Starbucks of course! We couldn’t afford coffee but bought a bag of coffee beans (and I'm proud of myself that I didn't buy one of those cool mugs they had).

Our last flight became 30 minutes delayed but we still managed to get home to our apartment by 11 PM after 22 ½ hours of travelling, including the bus to Narita Airport.

Rickard started his Sunday with checking prices on flights to Japan during the cherry blossom. After that everything returned to normal (=vardag).