That time of the year is upon us. It is Easter and every Easter for the last 7 years myself, my wife and more recently my daughter leave England and depart for the mighty U. S. of A. Doesn't matter where we go, we just find the cheapest easiest flights to wherever we can, and see what we see. This Easter is no different and so we packed up the car with enough belongings to last us at least a month, and enough electronic gadgets to arrange a planetary takeover, and began our journey.
Usually we fly direct out of Manchester airport but this time the second cheapest flights were from Heathrow so we headed south (the actual cheapest flights were from Manchester to Heathrow and then onwards to the US but that is just silly). Setting of at the intended 9,30 (actually 9,50 but that error was factored in already) we arrived down in Derbyshire for lunch at 11. York to Heathrow all in one go is a bit much for a little person so a stopover at grandparents seemed the ideal way to break it up. Leaving there just before 2 we arrived at the Heathrow Crown Plaza just after 4. A nice hotel (by the standard of the usually terrible airport hotels), the room is great, but the pool was full (they have a different definition of full to me) and the car park is what I traditionally know as a field. On the plus side it has a free club lounge with free drinks and free munchies and I will always be swayed by free food. Tomorrow is a bigger journey, but that's another story.
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