Across the Atlantic

Up early this morning with just a cup of tea and no breakfast.  We caught the 7.15 am bus from the hotel to Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.  All went smoothly although we needn't have rushed as our flight to Nassau was delayed by 30 minutes - could have had another 30 mins. in bed I guess.  Everything went smoothly at the airport and we took off on time (or rather on time at the amended delayed time) and had a really smooth journey across in our British Airways Boeing 767 with a fantastic view of the island of Bermuda in brilliant sunshine as we passed by.  We arrived at Nassau at 3.15 p.m. their time and descended in the thickest cloud I've ever known only seeing the island of New Providence a matter of a minute or two before landing.  We were through immigration and baggage reclaim in a matter of about 30 minutes and it was good to be back.  The weather was warm and muggy but not unbearably hot with a pleasant breeze blowing.  There is an Island Festival on at Arakwak Cay and area this weekend so the traffic was particularly bad through downtown Nassau.  We arrived at our apartment at around 4.30 p.m. and it took about half an hour to check in and another hour getting settled.  We went out to Anthony's tonight for a meal - the prices seem to have gone up or perhaps its just the dollar/pound which doesn't make it so good.  We enjoyed a stroll around the floodlit Atlantis gardens and lakes.  The sights, sounds and smells brought back lovely memories and we were so glad to be back.  Looking forward to a restful week after so many hectic ones lately.  Went to bed about 10.30 p.m. tonight and watched some of the World Series semi-final (Texas Rangers v. St. Louis Cardinals).  A win for the Cardinals tonight.