Well rested, I started my trip 3 o'clock in the morning. My first stop was the famous terminal 5 in London Heathtrow. I hope you already know it from the news?! And here starts the first problem. I stayed there for five hours and was pretty hungry and thirsty, but they only take british pounds. Of course, I only have euros and us-dollars. No problem, there are a lot of money exchange counters. Just a little problem, to buy a sandwhich I must not only pay six euros for the sandwhich, no, I must also pay nearly the same amount for money changing.
So, the first fight is won and the hungery is defeated. I'm still thirsty, because the hungry-fight was too expensive.
I have my laptop and some nice movies with me, so I can kill pretty easy the five hours. After a little bit of searching I find some outlets, because my laptop will not do five hours without one. But, not one is working! I thought I was pretty well prepared with travel-plug-adapter, but Terminal 5 shows me how reality works. In my opinion there are two possibilities: They built these shitty new terminal so badly that the outlets didn't work or they paid so much money to build it, that they can't pay their electricity bills!
But, I'm not me if I can't resolve this problem. After a while I find a working one. The only problem is that it is far away from a seat, so I must sit on the cold stones (not really an option for five hours) and it is directly beside a service-door and every five minutes an airport-worker goes in or out. Everytime the door closes with a loud bang and after that, big alarm noise sounds. I think the alarm is to warn the people, that some seconds ago the door closed so loud.
So, the first fight is won and the hungery is defeated. I'm still thirsty, because the hungry-fight was too expensive.
I have my laptop and some nice movies with me, so I can kill pretty easy the five hours. After a little bit of searching I find some outlets, because my laptop will not do five hours without one. But, not one is working! I thought I was pretty well prepared with travel-plug-adapter, but Terminal 5 shows me how reality works. In my opinion there are two possibilities: They built these shitty new terminal so badly that the outlets didn't work or they paid so much money to build it, that they can't pay their electricity bills!
But, I'm not me if I can't resolve this problem. After a while I find a working one. The only problem is that it is far away from a seat, so I must sit on the cold stones (not really an option for five hours) and it is directly beside a service-door and every five minutes an airport-worker goes in or out. Everytime the door closes with a loud bang and after that, big alarm noise sounds. I think the alarm is to warn the people, that some seconds ago the door closed so loud.
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