The holiday which almost never happened. The connecting flight to Heathrow was cancelled because of snow and ice at Newcastle. We were switched to Gatwick and only just made the transfer to Heathrow in time to connect to Cairo. Our bags didn't come with us, of course, but caught up only 24 hours later. On the return our bags didn't make the connection at Heathrow and we landed at Newcastle just after the biggest snow dump in living memory.