You can find anything in Heathrow Airport if you walk far enough. Near Terminal 2, past the bus station, under a flyover, you can even find God.
The airport chapel is a windowless stone bunker, located down a flight of stairs. Here, at lunchtime last Monday, I joined a dozen airport employees for a Catholic mass. It was a surprisingly tender, surreal service, which ended with an a cappella version of Amazing Grace. On the way out, I considered buying a postcard of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers.
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