Our starting point to Spain

Do you know that you can save a lot of money and your friend's time by park your car at long stay parking at Stansted Airport? We only need to pay £24 for 5 days (11am, 15 Feb until 11pm, 19 Feb). You can choose your own time and date and they will give the rate. But please add another half an hour to your two-hours-before-departure-time since the transfer time between parking area and the airport is about 15 mins. Thanks to Jap for his concern on all these remeh2 matters. He even read thoroughly all the T&Cs applied on the receipt and agreement. Sometime I’m good doing this but not at most of the time….hehehe.

Our departure time was 16:00 and arrived there at 13:40 after bus ride. Then we moved to the punggah memunggah area just to make sure the check in bag is below than 15 kg and also to make sure the hand luggage bag is within the permitted size. Otherwise you will gigit jari to pay more or need to sedekah the excess items to the bin like Areej did (betul kan Areej?).

We did online check-in one week earlier. So at counter, they only check either we provide the right document (passport la kan) or not and tally with our details on boarding pass. We also drop our check in bag there and alhamdulillah the weight is 15.0 kg precisely. The next step was entering the security check-in. Kat sini yang mendebarkan. At the first post, everything was ok. Beg tak nampak gemuk and besar means tak payah timbang. Then, it was a very long queue towards scan area. Any bulky steel items semua kena removed. Coat apatah lagilah. My first daughter sangkut kat scan including me. The security women did thoroughly check-up on Sumayyah and did twice on me. Hemm…kena raba pastu kena scan lagi with metal detector scanner. Dah lepas, then my husband’s hand luggage pulakyang sangkut. He forgot to remove his camera and laptop from the bag. Laptop pun kena scan lagi. Pening diode, cathode, transistor dalam tu. Asyik kena scan je.

Dalam masa yang ada, we moved to the gate stated on the screen. Not on our boarding pass ok...so kena more alert otherwise you will be late. Macam saya lah kan. I told others that we should wait because on screen stated like that. Sib baik ada Jep, dia yang push kita gi ke gate. Sampai sana orang dah start beratur. Alhamdulillah tak panjang mana. And again, they check our hand luggage. Everybody must bring only one bag in hand. So yang mana ada tersangkut-sangkut kiri kanan tangan, kenalah letak in one bag.

All of us sit in one place. Alhamdulillah taklah berpisah-pisah. Dapat kami share our foods. Then, bermulalah perjalanan kami towards Spain. Eh lupa...sebelum naik kapal terbang, pakatlah beli air kat cafe and letak dalam beg (jangan lak dok pamer la kan). If not you need to pay £2.50 only for a bottle of small bottle of mineral water!

Good bye UK...