We're back.

Well we're back from our whistle-stop tour of England. Been back to see the friends and relatives. It was exhausting. We're the ones who flew 4000 miles to the UK and then we had to drive everywhere to see everyone. :-)
England was typically England - nothing worked. Moving walkways in the airport broken, as usual. Took an hour to rent a car in between them not having one and trying to charge me 40 quid more for an upgrade I didn't ask for. Even then the car was shite and I had to take it back and swap it for something else.
Drove around for the whole week with sunglasses on my head just in case. Never needed to use them.
$120 for a pub lunch for three, $75 for 3/4 of a tank of petrol. $18 for two Whopper meals. I simply cannot comprehend how anyone manages to survive there any more.
Still, the sunny side was that we got to see everyone we expected to, and some we didn't. Everyone was healthy and largely happy which is good and it was just a shame we didn't have the opportunity to go over to Holland for a couple of days to catch up with everyone there. Still - we might manage it later in the year.

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