"William Black" wrote in message
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> > This was definitely *through* a shop, not through a big room with a couple
> > of shops.
> > Maybe there was an alterative exit, but I just followed the signs.
>
> I couldn't find the signs (I hadn't walked far enough into the big room) and
> had to ask an imbecile in a yellow tabard the way to the taxi rank.
>
> You obviously came out a different way to me.
In fact, just to prove I didn't imagine it, here's the map.
http://www.heathrowairport.com/assets/B2CPortal/Wrapped%20Static%20Files/Heathrow_Terminal1_Map_10-2006.pdf
Look at the ground floor international arrivals area (page 2). Look at the border
between the passenger area (on the right) and the public area (on the left). On both
sides is a shop marked 11 - "World Duty Free". Note the curved exit route. There
doesn't seem to be any other way out, and it is very clear that you are walking
through a shop, not a corridor with a shop on either side (after all it's the same
shop on both sides, as is clear from the map).
Was your flight from the UK or Ireland? If it was you'd have arrived on the first
floor which has a completely different layout.
--
Andy
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