3 July - Tuesday
The sun was actually shining this morning, periodically anyway, and as we had a few hours to fill in, decided on a 20 miles drive to Henley-on-Thames. First disaster of the day - the Henley Regatta starts tomorrow and everyone who wasn't at Wimbledon was heading to Henley! Took an hour and a half to drive the 20 miles, so returned via the motorway. Next disaster was returning the car to Europcar. We will NEVER NEVER NEVER use Europcar again. After all the problems we had in Edinburgh, Heathrow was even worse. There were two scuff marks (would you believe???) on the wheels and they wanted us to pay them 600 pounds in damages!!! Lots of discussions took place, stomach acid and plood pressures increased and we eventually had to pay them $55. Would never ever recommend them to anyone ever!
Checked in at Heathrow without event, although it took over half an hour to just get through security. Following the recent terrorism events, security is much tighter and the police presence is incredible. Police everywhere, carrying sub-machine guns, and not being at all discreet about standing over and watching people who they consider may be suspicious looking. We have no worries about all the security procedures, although one does feel a bit uncomfortable in crowds.
Our lasting impressions of the United Kingdom: rain, roundabouts, rain, hedges, rain, hanging baskets, rain, beautiful flowers -both garden and wild, rain, toilets which don't flush and rain!
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Wow, Europcar really do sound rather pig-headed, don't they! We've arrived in Brisbane now after a very long day of travelling. The plane flight with Jack wasn't too bad, but there was one horrible bit in the middle where it took the staff 10-15 minutes to warm up his bottle for us, and by the time it came back, Jack had worn himself out with crying and had fallen asleep. Which was lucky as the milk was blisteringly hot anyway, and he wouldn't have been able to have it. After a 30 minute nap, it was just the right temperature!
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