Glasgow to London

 Our last day for our Britrail passes. The train was ScottRail for the first leg so not very fancy....just 50 minutes to Edinburgh...transfered to the nicer LNER train for the remaining 5+ hours.

I'll just share some sights out the window. 

Lovely farm land and the view goes on for seemingly miles. 

Neat little towns. 

Pretty countryside. 

Not sure but I think this is probably clover.

And sheep of course!

I know, I'm sharing food photos...but it's part of the fun for me!  I chose a yummy hummus/chickpea/sweet potato/cous cous salad. The crew kept us busy offering tea and biscuits several times. 

Before we knew it, we were at London Kings Cross station. We needed to transfer all the way over to Heathrow Airport to be close to our hotel. Our Britrail passes include that travel, but it was via Thamslink, a railway we hadn't used before. But after several stops asking friendly attendants, we found the right train.  

One more transfer over to the Elizabeth line would take us directly to Heathrow.

The subway train was the busiest we'd seen!  Weekends apparently bring everyone out about town. 

Easy peasy walk out of the terminal at Heathrow to a city bus.  

Another very kind driver made sure we got off at the correct stop for hotel.   We have really enjoyed public transportation on this trip!

 So the rest of this post is just me having a bit of fun. We immediately noticed that the hotel room overlooks the runways at Heathrow...so I had a bird's eye view of landing aircraft. A plane landed every minute or so!  I had plenty of time to kill, so I sat by the window for about a half hour and these are some of the different airlines that landed. There were dozens of British Airways planes that landed but I didn't take very many repeat photos of them.  Not a single American branded aircraft landed while I was watching. 

British Airways

Iberia Air

Korean Air

Air India

Malta Airlines

Virginia Atlantic

Schenzin Airlines

Tianjian Airlines (had to look that one up!)

Sri Lankan Airlines

Vistara Airlines (India)

Air India

Air China

Air Lingus (Ireland)

Air Baltic

And finally,  Qatar Airlines.  I forced myself to stop but it was fun!  

Tomorrow we'll be up early for the 8 hour flight back to RDU after a great/fabulous/wonderful  trip!