First leg of our trip: London, Cambridge and York

Mon, 28 May 2007 19:09:12 GMT

So we successfully landed in Heathrow, England after an uneventful 8.5 hour flight (they had a tail wind!) but the downfall of landing at the busiest airport in the world was that we had to "Queue" up for our turn at the gate. Then the electric walkway wouldn't sync with the plane, so they attempted their backup, which wouldn't work either... So our early flight had us disembark 15 minutes late in the end! :) We ended up using the manual stairs which many people didn't appreciate because it was raining cats and dogs. No problem for us though, we grow best in the rain us north westers!

We then navigated over to the rental company where we picked up our spaking Passat wagon which is all black and tinted, quite pimp if you ask me. Dad was eager to drive so I graciously (and I mean with pleasure) took the passenger seat. After my navigating us 15 minutes in the wrong direction, attempting to figure out round-a-bouts ?!!?!?! and dealing with the overall traffic of London - I think we were ready to leave London major!

We drove up to Cambridge to find a place to lay our wearly, jet lagged bodies and we found a little old hotel known as "the Centurian" (guess how old it is?!) where we promptly hit the pillows - it was 6pm. Upon waking at around 4:00am we got organized and took the car for a tour of the college town before the crazy drivers scared us out of the city :) After having a wonderful breakfast we headed out to be tourists for real. We got OUT of the car and went to the Cambridge Kings College Chapel which took 100 years to build. It was breathtaking - the most amazing stained glass I've EVER seen. Once we were done with that, we promptly got lost and walked around for at least a half hour in the pouring rain looking for our rental car. Pretty funny - but it was a good walking tour of the city which we otherwise would have avoided for the rain.

After we found our car (two minutes from our original destination - one hour from our convoluted destination) we drove North to York, which is a 13th century walled city. I took my hand at the road and have to admit, being a lefty has its advantages, I really enjoyed shifting with my left! We secured a lovely hotel and dad rested for a bit while I marched off in search of a photo opportunity while the rain abated. After a leisurely meander through the walled city streets I came upon Dad who was taking a leisurely drive through the streets - we decided to grab dinner in the pub and have returned to the hotel to "plug in" since we are both such technology slaves.

Dad looks as if he's about to pass out on his laptop and I'm enjoying a Strongbow and Calring. Ahhhh - I love Europe! That's all for now. Cherrio!

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First leg of our trip: London, Cambridge and York