slowly she turned

On Saturday morning, the crowds were lining up at the Roman Baths and the Abbey. It was a bank holiday. We decided to skip seeing the Baths.

At Square Grill House, I had smoked salmon benedict, and Susan and Lisa had a full English breakfast. I think that was the only time any of us went full English. The bottled water we ordered for the table was interesting.

At this point, I think that all three of us were limping toward home after a night of little sleep. Trying to walk back to the train station with our luggage was frustrating since we had to dodge waves of people walking toward the center of town. It would probably have been fine earlier in our vacation. I wouldn’t mind returning – maybe combined with a trip to Wales or the Cotswolds.

There’s not really anything else much to say about this trip. We took the train to Paddington, then the Overground to Heathrow, then a taxi to our hotel nearby. Dinner at the hotel, breakfast was at the airport, and then we flew back to North Carolina with a stop at JFK on the way back the next day. Customs was basically nothing to go through either way – just a quick passport check since we filled out a simple residency form online before we left. We did have to exit and re-enter through regular security at JFK.

And that’s it. Next big trip is scheduled for Sandy and I to go to Scotland this fall!