I LOVE ENGLAND… BUT

STILL NOT HOME

This was already a long trip away from home. We were slated to be in Nantwich for 20 days total over the Christmas and New Year’s Eve holidays.

We certainly enjoyed spending plenty of time with the family in Nantwich, but it was time to leave. We have only been home for five days since November and Janet is traveling to Florida on Thursday. There was no time to dawdle.

Except we are not leaving England. We should have left yesterday, Sunday, but we won't get home until late Tuesday night. What can best be described as a meager snowstorm closed Manchester airport for a while, delaying our flight to London Heathrow, enough to miss our connecting flight to Philadelphia. England is always a far better choice than Philadelphia, but we needed to get home.

The next two days of American airline flights to Philadelphia out of LHR are filled. So British Airlines (who operated the flight out of Manchester) placed us on a Virgin Atlantic flight on TUESDAY. We were supposed to be home Sunday. We will first fly to Boston on Virgin Atlantic before connecting with a flight to Philadelphia, arriving TUESDAY evening.

We are staying for two-days in a hotel near the airport that British Air arranged for us.  

This is a persistent theme with us lately. Instead of hours of traveling, it has been days of traveling to reach our destination.  We managed to fly to both Vietnam and Fiji in less time.  

UGH.

This morning on the BBC there’s talk of flooding from more rain and snow melt, with the correspondent addressing this issue in front of green grass dotted with snow. Overreaction?

Well, they are closing schools in Nantwich: NANTWICH NEWS

UGH Thankfully the destinations make up for the aggravation.

I love traveling.

Love Janet and greg

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