GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation – Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts & Comments After having been back home in Washington State for several weeks now, I have been having many differing thoughts on our recent experience back in the UK. When we first arrived in LONDON HEATHROW, everything was fairly easy for us with me knowing most of the basic fundamentals of the British …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 20

Sunday 9th October 2022. We slept in a little late today which was unusual for us. Being a Saturday night last night, it was pretty busy and the hotel was packed out this morning with people all over the place. There quite a lot of foreign-speaking guests in the hotel. My guess is that they …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 19

Saturday 8th October 2022. Went down for our normal breakfast. Being the weekend, the hotel was quite full and there were people all over the place in the dining area. We found a table, put our stuff on it and went to grab some food. All OK and excellent as nearly all HIEs breakfasts were. …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 18

Friday 7th October 2022. We were a little tired when we pulled in last night, so it was no surprise that we had a good night’s sleep. We went downstairs and had a long lazy breakfast. As with all Holiday Inns, there was terrific breakfast offering virtually anything you wanted – British style of course. …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 17

Thursday 6th October 2022. Woke up to sunny blue skies and fluffy clouds. We had a nice breakfast and headed south down the A12 trunk road for London. Well, we were going as far as the M25 which is essentially the London Ring Road which goes all the way around London and is 125 miles …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 16

Wednesday 5th October 2022. We left the Holiday Inn at 8:15am got onto the M1 again and headed south towards London. After half an hour, we branched off onto the A14 headed into East Anglia region of eastern England. There we hit a bit of stop – go delay at the start but the traffic …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 15

Tuesday 4th October 2022 We both woke up this morning feeling a little lethargic and starting to wonder if three weeks is going to be a little too much. Don’t know why, but there it is. We had a good chat about it and decided to press on and go home as planned. Had breakfast …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 14

(Note from Sherry: Apparently there is no Day 13 report for some reason. Just how things go sometimes!) Monday 3rd October 2022 Well, this is the day that Betty and myself have been looking forward to since we booked this vacation: a trip into Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a beautiful city full of wonder, excitement, and …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 12

Saturday 1st October 2022 Overnighting at Perth, Scotland still. Got up around 7am and were getting ready to go down to breakfast, which in virtually Holiday Inns was pretty good and you could choose between a hot breakfast or continental, or both. We set off about 9:30am and headed north for Inverness and the Scottish …
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GUEST POST from David: UK Vacation, Sept. 2022 – Day 11

Friday 30th September We left Dunfermline this morning to a thick band of heavy rain. What had we done to deserve this? It gradually got worse and very windy too. We wondered what we could do today instead of riding around in the wasting gas. We looked at the map and found an indoor shopping …
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