Welcome to the doug blog (the UK edition) We are traveling to England for (Ruth's brother) Jon's wedding. I will be blogging periodically through out the trip about our journey and adventures abroad. We will start with our travel day, and I really hope you will enjoy reading and check back often.
The word of the day... Delay!
A delay in the Charlotte airport and another delay sitting on the tarmac in Newark made for a rather late arrival in to London. We planned to take a coach three and a half hours up to Nottingham to meet Ruth's brother Jon. Due to the delays we were running really close to missing the coach we were meant to take. Realizing there would be a two and a half hour wait until the next coach departed for Nottingham, our sense of urgency increased. What a sight to see us legging it through the Heathrow airport equipped with 3 large suitcases, 2 medium sized carry-ons, 2 personal shoulder bags, and a handbag. We arrived at the coach station and jumped in line with 5 minutes until departure. I grabbed us each a sandwich and water whilst Ruth bought the tickets. We literally ran out to the platform, with our luggage now more conveniently on trolleys, waving our tickets at the coach driver who began to back out. He gave us a quick glance as to say sorry, and Ruth immediately abandoned her trolley to plead our case using her waving arm gestures to no avail. As she abandoned her trolley it rolled toward the curb piled high with our luggage. I let go of my trolley to save hers but was a split second too late, as hers toppled over off of the curb spilling the luggage into the parking space, and then mine abruptly followed suite. What a sight, what a scene, what a grand entrance! Watch out England the Hutchins are back!
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2 comments:
Did you make the coach ? lol
Oh sorry, maybe I did not make that very clear. No the driver kept going, but not without everyone on the bus staring at us like we were crazy as the drove past. We did in the end make the next one 2 1/2 hours later.
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