We had a comfortable flight on Air Transat, 12 Club seats in the front made the 8.5 hour journey more comfortable but the timing, 4pm to 4am-ish, meant yu could not really gt much sleep. Therefore jet lag haas been hard to combat.
We have rented cars in England and France the whole time so after a 7:30am landing, we had to tackle driving on the right without a map. Rental car comapnies don't provide any maps here, srange..But I had run off a Google Map set of directions from Gatwick airport to Ted's brother's home in Great Bookham, Surrey. We only had a couple of detaours through lovely country lanes and villages, not the most easy or direct route apparently.
A warm welcome awaiting and two days there, with comfortable digs, and a day out to a National Trust propety, which we unfortuantely missed seeing insde as we arrived 4 minutes before closing! WE had meanwhile found a neat country pub The Badger, serving wonderful seafood from a few miles south on the English channel. We enjoyed a walk around the garden grounds at Petworth all the same. But it huses one of the best art collections in National Trust, notably Turners, so was a bit sad to miss it. Another time...
It was grandma's Anne's day for the kids so she and Graeme arrived for lunch with the 3 and 1 year old girls, Gracie and Isla. We then came back with them, Anne with Ted, me with Grraeme, so I didb't have to navigate that one. They kidsit one day a week so that's it over for this week.
We have rented cars in England and France the whole time so after a 7:30am landing, we had to tackle driving on the right without a map. Rental car comapnies don't provide any maps here, srange..But I had run off a Google Map set of directions from Gatwick airport to Ted's brother's home in Great Bookham, Surrey. We only had a couple of detaours through lovely country lanes and villages, not the most easy or direct route apparently.
A warm welcome awaiting and two days there, with comfortable digs, and a day out to a National Trust propety, which we unfortuantely missed seeing insde as we arrived 4 minutes before closing! WE had meanwhile found a neat country pub The Badger, serving wonderful seafood from a few miles south on the English channel. We enjoyed a walk around the garden grounds at Petworth all the same. But it huses one of the best art collections in National Trust, notably Turners, so was a bit sad to miss it. Another time...
It was grandma's Anne's day for the kids so she and Graeme arrived for lunch with the 3 and 1 year old girls, Gracie and Isla. We then came back with them, Anne with Ted, me with Grraeme, so I didb't have to navigate that one. They kidsit one day a week so that's it over for this week.
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