Luggage, What Luggage?

We've arrived in Madrid - and so did our luggage! Albeit on two seperate planes, neither of which was the one we were on... But we got to know the baggage claim area at Madrid airport really well. Was a bit of an adventure to get to the baggage claim area too, which was fun - you walk out from the arrival gate into the transit area on the 3rd floor, then wind your way til you eventually find escalators to take you up to the 4th floor where you pass immigration (with no forms to fill out - yay!) then down a series of escalators to the basement, where you catch a train for 5-10min, then up more excalators, and through security (no customs), and then, voila - you wait for another 45min and the baggage belts start moving...

Anyways, so we are here safe and sound after a long set of flights. Enjoyed the new airbus A380. nice and quiet where we were, at the back of the wing. And we had the row to ourselves from Sydney to Heathrow. Stu tried to play the pathetic, "look at my munted hands" card, but no upgrades resulted. We did get to board the buses to the planes at Heathrow first though...

We've checked into our fancy hotel, had a fancy meal (where I had to order "vino blanco" because the guy couldn't understand when I asked for water...) and are headed to bed so we can do some exploring tomorrow!

Mita and Stu :)