Christmas Travel (In Pictures)

What follows are a few pictures starting at my flat in London and ending aboard a British Airways 777 bound for Boston. At the end are two pictures of a yet-to-be-changed Accenture advert with Tiger Woods. It takes on a whole new meaning now.

Here's a view down Alderney Street (my flat is immediately to the left).

Here's a view of Warwick Square on my walk to Victoria Station.

Here's Victoria Station, where I catch the Tube/bus each morning and where I caught the Tube to Heathrow on Sunday morning.

Here's the classic Underground insignia on the District/Circle Line platform. I caught the District Line westboard and switched to the Piccadilly Line at Hammersmith.

Here's a view of the Piccadilly Line carriage as it neared Heathrow.

Here's the empty Piccadilly Line train at Heathrow Terminal 5.

Another Underground insignia

Here's the Departures board at Heathrow Terminal 5, home to British Airways' operations at the airport.

And we're nearly there. My flight departed London at 4pm and arrived in Boston at 6:30pm. With a five hour time difference, that made for a flight of over seven hours.

This flight didn't operate during sleeping hours, but there's plenty to distract you enroute.

And here's the Tiger Woods advertisement at the top of an escalator in Heathrow Terminal 5B.

"It's what you do next that counts." He better hope so.

Happy Christmas

I may have successfully avoided a British Airways cabin crew industrial action (read: strike) to be caught up by a Noreaster hitting Boston over the next few days. If all goes according to plan and the weather behaves itself, I should be back in the United States tomorrow evening. We'll see...

In the meantime, here are a few pictures of Christmas trees in London. The first three pictures a from the Palace of Westminster. The remaining pictures are from the tree in Trafalgar Square. (As an added bonus, you can see London's larger-than-life menorah in a few of the final pictures.)