Dulles Disney Ride

At Dulles Airport in Washington, you get an extra ride in these vehicles that look as if they should be on caterpillar tracks in the snow.

These strange-looking contraptions transport passengers to all the terminals that are spread over a great distance. They pull up to the terminal buildings, the doors open, and you walk out into the terminal!

It’s a weird sensation - it's like a room on wheels!

From the posters that are up around the airport, they look to be replacing the vehicles with a train system at some stage.

Washington whirl

We arrived by train into Washington DC at 7:00pm yesterday, and now at 9pm on Saturday night, we're sitting at Dulles Airport with 30mins to go before our plane leaves for London.

We felt right at home here, because next to the hotel was a construction site to remind us of Dubai!

The short stay duration made us determined that we were going to at least see the most famous Washingtonian building, so last night we leapt into a taxi and made it to the White House gates just on dusk.

The taxi driver told us that George was in Memphis – probably visiting Elvis - so sadly we didn’t get to meet him this time.

Dinner on the rooftop of the Washington Hotel gave us a grand view of the Washington Monument. The weather was perfect - warm and no wind - perfect for dining al fresco.

Then it was early(ish) to bed to prepare for rising at 6:00am to work on email backlogs before J gave a speech at a medical conference.

We came out to the airport early so that we could sit in the lounge, log-in and continue to work on emails. Sometimes, we hate email - especially those that take a long time to formulate a response to - and of course an immediate reply is always expected. I almost look forward to spam, just for the satisfaction of doing nothing but deleting it from my Inbox!