Flight

• Nice enough, nothing really unpleasant, but nothing very interesting.
• No individual interactive VOD screens this time.
• Great view flying over Canada: black and white. Snow, frozen lakes and dark terrain.
• At least one hour of Economics assignment writing, until the battery died on me.
  

Birmingham airport

• Getting there was easy enough. Tipp: get the bus and rail travelcard for 4,70 pounds
• Restaurants close quite early at the airport. I should not have been surprised, after the experience on campus. The typical hamburger in the New York style italian restaurant franchise was a nice preparation.
• It is always difficult to say goodbye. But we knew it would be so and there are no regrets, only hope.
• Laptop bags are no longer allowed as second piece of hand luggage, at least not at the Birmingham International airport. Extra 33 pounds. And I had already paid 55 pounds for the extra kilos I had to take with me. Next time I might take the bus and fare.
• Very detailed inspection of my hand luggage. But people were nice to me.