Today is it! After 41 days of travel we are heading home! Well...not exactly home....that doesn't happen till after Labor Day, but at least back to Massachusetts to start the next part of our summer---camping.
We headed out to the airport before 7 am so we would miss the commuter traffic. Our GPS came in handy again! I can't say enough about how important having one of these is when you are traveling by car in the United Kingdom! I don't know what we would have done without it.
We checked in our bags at the British Airlines desk and received a very pleasant surprise! They upgraded us from World Traveler....to World Traveler Plus....basically took us out of steerage!!!! YEAH!!! They basically gave us a gift of $500.00!
We tried to upgrade our seats over the last couple of days through the Internet and thru calling but we were unable to. We had upgraded our tickets on the flight going to London for about $500.00 and realized once we did it how necessary it really is for people our size. They have significantly more leg and seat room then the regular seats so we were very disappointed when the upgrade couldn't happen. So this was a very pleasant surprise.
The flight home was totally uneventful: about 6 1/2 hours, good food, free wine, and safe!
Ed & I sure are lucky to have both the time and the resources to make this kind of a trip. We are very grateful!
This is the end of my Great Britain Blog! We will be continuing on to camping for the rest of the summer. I will occasionally post to my Miles With Monty Blog if you have any interest. It can be found at http://summertravel2013.blogspot.com/. It's a continuation of the Blog I started last summer. Please don't feel obligated to continue to read, but for those who want to, be sure to sign up for e-mail notifications since I won't be writing every day.
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