Zoom Airlines got us to Gatwick half an hour early only to then spend over an hour waiting for our luggage. With completely dead mobiles I had to use a public phone box for ringing Stephen. It cost me 60p for leaving a 15 word message before I got cut off. Mobiles are definitely cheaper, if only Canadian 110 volts would charge them!!
Bought Alex's calendar, had lovely lunch in Basketmakers (again) met up with Stephen and gave him his Toronto Maple Leafs shirt from Alex and Meaghan. Got to ASDA to pick up our glasses and buy Roy's nostalgia items of Cheddar cheese, English pork saugages, porridge oats, gravy powder and OXO cubes. We decided to forego the thick cut marmalade trying to look after our luggage zippers which were already under undue pressure.
Met up with Stephen again after which he gave us a lift back to the B&B. In the evening we had a couple of slightly too cold pints of bitter and a good meal in the Six Bells in Horley. While part of the Traditional Old Inns chain, this old pub is so quintessentially oldy-worldy English that the atmosphere is still there. Must suggest to future in-laws for a drink and/or meal, should they have a stop over in Horley any time.
The second leg of the trip was really amazingly uneventful. Plane left only slightly late and arrived on time. Then followed a record that should be quoted in the Guinness Book of World Records. We landed at Budapest Airport Terminal 1 at 4pm. After being bussed to the building, standing in the immigration queue, waiting for luggage, getting a taxi and travelling into BP in the rush hour we were inside the flat by 4.40pm. Anybody who can beat that should contact me on this blog!!!
Now I am trying to acclimatise and get over jetlag. Roy is great and has instantly readjusted, I am a bit slower.
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