The Airport Search adventure group traveled in and round London with Gatwick Airport’s mascot, Gary Gatwick, ultimate week.

Our venture: find out how clean it is to use Gatwick Airport as a base while visiting the location.

We traveled via train and underground to go to sights in critical London, the Brighton beach, and the ancient West Sussex towns of Arundel, and Amberly

Every forestall turned into an educational journey and Gary Gatwick changed into an ideal host and guide.

But one experience on the underground became a lesson about the kindness and professionalism of the folks who paintings for Transport for London.

Because Gary Gatwick someway were given left behind at the Farringdon station.

It took about 10 stops to comprehend Gary Gatwick become missing.

We had been, of route, horrified that he’d been left at the back of.

And we weren’t assured we’d be reunited.

He turned into travelling in our small blue backpack and, honestly, our experience with public delivery in other towns led us to assume that the backpack would be taken by using another passenger, thrown out, or, worse, handled as a suspicious, unattended package deal and blown up!

But none of that passed off.

While useful station attendants at another station made calls to the Farringdon station on our behalf to inquire about our misplaced item, our little backpack was determined and became in to the lost property workplace at the station.

This customer service manager recognized Gary Gatwick, took properly care of him, and logged his go to into the statistics.

When we subsequently made our manner again to the Farringdon station and asked to be directed to the supervisor’s workplace, all and sundry on obligation knew just who we were.

“Oh, you’re the humans searching out the endure! Go that way.”

We took a piece of ribbing, however once we signed for our misplaced belongings we were back on our manner.

The London Underground, like most other public transit networks, is a sprawling system. And, clutching Gary Gatwick close so we didn’t lose him again, we concept we’d just melt again into the ocean of passengers.

But whilst we got back to the station platform we encountered Kevin.

He’s the Transport for London employee who had observed Gary Gatwick on the platform and he’s the only who made positive Gary changed into secure.

Kevin regarded really happy to look us reunited with Gary Gatwick and we’ve declared him our hero!