The streets, however, still thronged with tourists as well as with homeward-bound office and shop workers.
I waited for ages in Wantage town square for the homeward-bound bus.
Unfortunately, it took nearly 48 hours for my bags to catch up with me at my Manhattan hotel, but on boarding the homeward-bound flight the airline gave me £50 for the inconvenience.
Luckily my homeward-bound train appeared almost immediately and soon I was in front of the telly, with another glass of wine in my hand, my cat at my side, and watching a video of Billy Connolly - a perfect way in which to round off the day.
Manchester holidaymakers on board a homeward-bound flight from Crete staged a revolt after being told the plane was being diverted to London.
He is scheduled to make a stop at Novosibirsk in western Siberia on his homeward-bound 10,000-kilometer train journey.
When my outbound flight is called, dozens of homeward-bound women irritably unpack their hijabs and put them on.
He wasn't allowed to board the homeward-bound plane with the Special Forces soldiers.
It's almost a year since I walked across it, whilst I was in New York on the American leg of my homeward-bound trip.
And then I had to be off, and thankfully managed to make it back to Paddington in time to get on a homeward-bound train that was just about leave.
Posh nosh is on the menu for weary homeward-bound commuters.
Today's homeward-bound college grads hope to pay back student loans, put away savings, possibly invest their entry-level earnings, and even begin to make long-term investments.
One commuter suffered a heart attack and others fainted and were ill in the heat as their homeward-bound train was brought to a standstill.
During my homeward-bound tube journey this evening, my mobile phone beeped into life.
It would leave hordes of us homeward-bound travellers stuck on stationary trains or, confused by contradictory loudspeaker announcements, send us scurrying in vain from one empty platform to another.
‘Everyone seems to want to live fast and die young,’ he remarks, observing rowdy homeward-bound teen clubbers jostling their hungover elders in the ticket queue.
And passengers, intent on catching homeward-bound planes, often have little time to argue.
Apparently, Michael Jackson mania in Oxford increased last night after I'd left to catch my homeward-bound train.