I flew over to the UK on Friday for a week’s vacation. Good points: Virgin Atlantic upgraded us from Economy to Premium Economy for free; service was excellent. Bad points: the flight was oversold, and it took Virgin an hour to sort out who’s on and who’s off. And it was a daytime flight – I was neutral, but my wife preferred it. After the event, I am no longer neutral. Daytime eastbound transatlantic SUCKS. Instead of having a short, broken night which stresses your body into taking up the new schedule, you have a short broken day, so it’s impossible to get to sleep. Never again.
Normally when we come to Oxford we stay with relatives, but this time it wasn’t convenient, so we stayed at a random motorway-type hotel at the A34/A40 intersection. On Saturday morning we walked into the Little Chef diner next door for breakfast, and I saw a WiFi hotspot sign. “Heaven, I’m in heaven…” So that’s where I am now. (And of course the setup time on my PowerBook was just as long as it took me to type in a credit card number to buy a few hours of credit. Sweet.)
The weather here is perfect, and forecast to remain that way for our stay. So more anon, with pics (and perhaps video).