Tuesday, April 30th
Arrived slightly late into Heathrow at 5:30am, found the BA Club and then went looking for Tony W whose flight was delayed a bit more than mine. It turns out, I arrived in Terminal 5 Building B, the BA Club was also in Building B, Tony arrived in Building C and our flight to Pisa also departed from Building C.
To get from B to C one uses an underground shuttle train, so I collected Tony from Building C and we returned to Building B in the train. However, either we forgot to get off, or we couldn't get off, and we ended up in Building A - the main arrival, departure and security checking part of Terminal 5. Effectively, we left the secure transit area accidentally and ended up back in the "real world". This meant going through passport and security checks all over again - not a trivial exercise at Heathrow. Tony D turned up at Building C, on schedule, and we all got on the two hour flight to Pisa.
Once in Pisa, we got two taxis to split our luggage and personal and found the hotel easily. We were too early to check in, so left the luggage there and went to get a beer.
As one does, we ended up near the Leaning Tower:
Then we walked back to the hotel, checked in, cleaned up, and put our bikes together. Unfortunately, they had all suffered some minor damage due to reckless baggage handlers somewhere along the way.
We're not happy, but we test rode the bikes and at least they all seem to be OK.
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