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2024 - Europe Trip - Part 3 - London

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After landing at London's Heathrow airport, old memories were awakened. I landed at Heathrow Airport for the first time in 2000 on a foreign tour. As it was evening at that time, the airport was crowded. But now, as it was night time, we did not feel that we were at one of the busiest airports in the world. Considering the interest of the environment, this airport is closed for five-six hours at night like some other airports in Europe. When it comes to our country, our airports are the busiest at night. Of course, this may be a convenient time to go from Europe to America.     As for immigration, there was not a huge queue. It was an overall case of Atul ahead and Veena World passengers behind. There were a total of 43 people on our trip. 13 of them were to join us at a hotel in London. So there should be 30 people in this queue. There were several officials to control the immigration queue. As Atul got his number, he told the officials that all the following men had com...

2024 - Europe Tour - Preparations, Borivali to London via T2

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Link to previous episode  https://adityacricket1.blogspot.com/2024/08/2024-europe-tour-prologue.html The Europe trip was actually planned for 2020. At that time, the visa for England was also received in February.  The covid started when  the documents for Schengen visa were being collected   . Of course all trips were postponed. By 2022, tours had not started or were running on a limited basis. After that Veena World started contacting us. We had two options. The first is to withdraw some of the amount paid for the booking, except for water. Another option is to join a tour that is now available by paying the difference at the increased price. In 2023 we were unable to go on the Europe tour as all of our schedules did not coincide with Veena World's available tour schedule.  Around late 2023, Veena World sent a message to Nirvani that it would no longer be possible to retain this amount. So we were left with the option of either using this amount for trips...