Week 6- 40hrs Heathrow, Roskilde and Copenhagen

Aberdeen to Copenhagen- unknown (1697)

Highlights- Seeing Sylvia, Roskilde festival, seeing Copenhagen

Lowlights- 48 hours at Heathrow, no luggage, festival washout with no tent, Pete gastro, still no luggage

Accommodation- 1 night wild camp at Heathrow, 6 nights in Syliva's 1 bedroom flat (cheers muchly)

What a week, hard to believe a week ago we were setting out from Aberdeen so optimistic about our trip to Denmark and and Roskilde. It all started well, getting to the airport with a great Taxi driver who dismantled his car to fit our bikes. Checking in the BA who didn't even weigh out bike boxes.

Then we hit Heathrow and the tide began to turn. As most would know the UK had several acts of terrorism in the last couple of weeks and a suspect package was discovered at Heathrow Terminal 4 just as we arrived. So T4 was evacuated and all British Airways international flights to Europe, USA and Asia came to a stand still. As you can imagine, when you close something like T4 down for about 8 hours it tends to have a huge impact on the running of a smooth operation, so about about 4000 people were stuck in the Airport, with twice as many pieces of luggage sitting somewhere in the depths of luggage handling.

After sitting/sleeping in seemingly endless que stretching between terminals (remembering how big heathrow is, about 1Km between each of the 4 terminals) spending a night on the cold hard reality of the check in corridor floor, we awoke to rejoin another que to get out flight re-booked. This all went well until they cancelled our new flight. Pete muscled his way through the line and got new tickets for a later flight (he actually found the same nice BA lady that helped before and she did it straight away for us) which was delayed and finally got on a plane bound for Denmark.

Although we were assured that we would be rejoined with out luggage at the other end, they failed to specify when. No bikes of bags, which is bad news when you are supposed to be camping at a music festival. Enter the help of Sylvia, she offered her 1 bedroom flat to us for our stay until our bags turned up.

First day of Roskilde was a washout as we had no waterproof clothes. Second day Pete had gastro, so was spent in bed. We actually made the last two days and saw the likes of The Who, Muse, The Artic Monkeys and the Flaming Lips along with a bunch of smaller bands including Norwegian Bigbang, Lonely, Dear and Tunng. It was a great festival considering the circumstances.

Still no luggage. A day spent trying to sort things out, we decided to head back to London until BA get their act together, leaving Wednesday.