United States to London and Cambridge
A visit to Europe to visit WW II sites was on my bucket list and also of great interest to son Jeff. Neither of our wives were interested, so we planned a trip to visit Europe in September 2017. . Jeff did all of the planning for cars, B&B’s, hotels, guides, tours, and other reservations in Europe. We both departed on September 17, 2017. He left Anchorage, flew to Seattle, and on to London on British Airways. Donna took me to Rapid City and I flew to Minneapolis on Delta, on to Reykjavik, Iceland, then on to London on Iceland Air. We both left home about the same time and arrived within one hour of each other at London’s Heathrow Airport about 15 hours later.
London to Cambridge
British customs and immigration was a slow process taking about 30 minutes. I had checked my bag in Rapid City and was concerned about the transfers, but there it was going around the baggage carousel at Heathrow. Happy Day! We proceeded to rent a car (which had the steering wheel on the right side) and headed out on the outer loop around London driving on the left side of the road and navigating roundabouts clockwise instead of counterclockwise like in the United States. We made our way towards Cambridge using both GPS navigation and Google maps on Jeff's iPhone. No problems until one mile from the hotel in Duxford the instructions on the roundabout exit from Google were wrong and we had to go 17 miles to reverse course. The Holiday Inn Express was next to a busy highway, so we requested rooms in the back only to find train tracks and trains. Dinner was near the hotel and then we went to bed. In spite of the trains, after being up almost 24 hours, I slept for 14 hours.