Tickets booked - I’m off on my 3rd (and final I suspect) Lions Tour. Flying out to Cape Town for 11 days in June 2009.
Fingers crossed we’ll have tickets for 3 of the games, including the Durban test match. Can’t wait - bring it on!!!!
Oh yeah, I’m going with Pinky, Pauly and Tommy 
After a 9 hour flight or 540 minutes, you’d maybe expect to have another hour of waiting about before getting out of the airport, but not in Atlanta. Here you have to wait a good hour in the queue for immigration and in fact the queue for US citizens was just as long as it was for us foreigners.
Then you get to collect you baggage and clear customs - this was the easy piece, after such a long wait for immigration my bag must have been around the baggage reclaim belt 50 times.
Once through customs, you have to recheck your baggage - yes that’s right folks, recheck your baggage and go through security again. This seems ridiculous to me but it’s because you have to reenter a secure area to get the train to the terminal.
The train took only a couple of minutes but I knew I’d have to wait around at the other end for my bag. So I joined the queue for Avis hire cars, which took about a further 20 minutes. By which time my bag still hadn’t arrived.
After it did finally turn up on the baggage belt, it had been 153 minutes or over 2.5 hours since we’d got off the plane. That’s 28% of the total flying time from London to Atlanta in the first place. People always complain about London Heathrow, but it’s a walk in the park compared to here.
