Leaving Sinai

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Hello Blighty

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Chaos at the Airport, good byes to friends & tears

Nearly not allowed through

have the wrong visa for a holiday flight

in the end .... they let me board

Farewell to Egypt, land of Sunshine & wonky Donkeys

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Gatwick airport, what a horrid space, around the late evening

it's damp, cold & no one seems to know anything

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One train and three tubes later

land at Euston

missed the train connection home

flight was late

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No food to buy, no drink for sale

Seats only in the waiting room

it's almost full of

people with nowhere else to go

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It's going to be a long night

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Okay ... a voice shouts

Everybody out!

Oh dear, post 911, all stations close

I have nowhere to go

but I don't want to go out there.....

I pick up my bags, case and laptop

trudge with the motley group

A giantly tall man in a Railways Uniform

is behind a pillar

he beckons to me, over here

Nonchalantly

I peel off from the group

Wait here he whispers

I wait

Shortly he returns

it's ok now he says

you missed your connection

you can stay in the waiting room overnight

As I return to the room I thank the Universe

alerting a kind man to my dilemma

a real passenger needs a seat in the waiting room

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Humans are still kind here I reflected

as I twisted myself into a sleep in a chair mode

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