One does not simply fly into England

One does not simply fly into England
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Actually I lie. We did simply fly into England, after a 23 hour journey from Australia. I then spent several hours in a hotel room becoming disgusted with the Android WordPress app. By the following night I had decided to use Facebook as a journal to record immediate thoughts and impressions. So part of what follows will be excerpts from that with other learnings etc. 🙂

So an annotated version of my first journal entry reads:

Made it here… eventually. Leaving London we got lost on a ring-road and unknowingly drove south instead of north. Realised our error at Hastings.

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So then drove north and was unable to find the M40. Me being me thought it a good idea to try to navigate by the sun and so eventually we found ourselves driving for hours on tiny country roads til we eventually struck a town called Bedford.

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Caved in and bought a map.

Next challenge: Nicole’s map reading and navigation skills… she… doesn’t have any. Oh well, who am I to criticize? Every time the shadows hit the road from the wrong direction

7 Comments


  1. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this post a lot. 🙂
    I’ll never understand why people fear things like Harry Potter or other fantasy media. Those things are not religious nor political, it’s just plain childhood whimsy. And… I must display my geek side (my apologies! lol) and leave a Doctor Who quote, regarding the times that you and your wife became lost on the trip: The Doctor had complained to the Tardis that she never took him where he wanted to go. And she responded, “No, but I always took you where you needed to go.” That’s the truth about travels, I believe, half the fun of it is the journey and not necessarily the actual destination! 😉


    1. My pleasure 🙂 Yep – I totally agree re: Harry Potter. It is also good to hear from another Whovian 🙂 To be honest, that lost journey was pretty funny at times 🙂


  2. Harry Potter is the “works of the devil”?! LOL…Hmmm…what would they call those who enjoyed the reading book? 😀
    Thank you so much for sharing. The first image is great for horror story! 😀


    1. I know that I am being judgemental of friends, but yes they do believe that. Me – I love Harry Potter in both books and films 🙂 Glad you liked my post and my pics 🙂


  3. In the late 90s, in the capital of Russia, when I was in high school and the Potter books were coming out, my teacher of English got into trouble with one of the student’s parents because she dared recommend the kids to read Harry Potter in the original to practice their English. ‘Cuz “works of the Devil”.
    It’s sad to know there are people like that in the “civilized world” as well, even to this day.
    And I’m Christian, too.


    1. Sad indeed. But I guess we must let people have their beliefs. No doubt many people think us Christians deluded. And thankyou for sharing that with me. 🙂 In public forums it is often easier not to share.


  4. I can imagine how it was to drive for seven hours in U.K. instead of one of a half hours. The roads are narrow and paved with stone borders trees and bushes takes the sight and the high ways around London is like one big parking lot at rush hours. Having hired a car and driving in the “wrong side” of the road several times I thing a satellite navigation system has improved our driving skills considerably and we are able to find gasoline stations and shops and restaurants in the middle of nowhere too

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