Between Stuttgart and London

I went with UWE to visit ITFS - Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2009 back in May this year. Here is a follow up to my previous flight journey entry, the return trip from Germany to UK.

We took off from Stuttgart International Airport in a British Airways airbus at about 5pm, the very hour when Stuttgart tends to rain heavily, on cue, most days we were there.

The storm clouds loomed closer.

And it begun to pour, with flashes and roars.

I was quite excited to take off in a storm having just seen lightnings striking monuments and cinema buildings the previous days. The spray of water behind a charging aircraft is huge. This a case when the tremendous energy needed to lift a metal bird off the earth was made visible.

Off we go, right through the pelting rain.

Rising above the skies in Germany and finally soaring above the storm,

Into a completely different world above that seemed so calm.

We entered the domain of the clouds, an ever changing landscape.

Crossing the English channel.

Back into the skies of UK.

Descending through the cloud barriers, I could almost reach out and touch those woolly giant floating sheep.

UK from above, approaching from the southeast, looks very densely developed.

Our gentle descent into more pastoral scenery.

On the runways of Heathrow.

Another plane landed as ours eased into a halt by Terminal 5.

Back inside the building on solid ground.

In Neverwhere, the premise was the existence of a London Below, where people who fell through the cracks ended up in. I wonder if there is a London Above, or any cities or castles in the air.