The Cosses have landed!
After a pretty good flight (it helped that I took a whole Ativan – not a half as I usually do!) we arrived safe and sound at Heathrow where Beckie met us and drove us to her home in Gayhurst. Heathrow was looking pretty good actually – they’ve done a fair bit of modernizing and it was cleaner than we remember. We also discovered at the immigration point that if Phil had been travelling on his British passport, we could have gone through the MUCH shorter EU line even though I am travelling on a Canadian passport. Next time I’ll make sure I use his Brit passport when I’m booking the flights. After leaving Heathrow, our introduction to British highway traffic was M4 to M25 to M1. The M25 and M1 are arguably the busiest highways in Europe. Even midday it was busy – it must be insane during rush hour. Lee (Beckie’s husband) is in Edinburgh on business at the moment. He left the house 2 hours before his flight out of Luton, which is only 25 miles away, but got caught in traffic and missed...