Helston to Heathrow

We have had a lovely two weeks staying with Faye, Paul, Dan and Livvy - great to see them all so happy and Dan and Livvy doing so well. A highlight this time was going to Fayes 'Military Wives' choir practice - they sound amazing and have a wonderful teacher - so good that they recorded the backing for a singer/songwriter this week with only one practice!

 

Faye, Dan, Len, Liv & Paul

We left Helston on Sunday with us needing to return the rental car to Heathrow and be at Euston Station on Tuesday morning for our train trip up to Whitehaven. We stayed the night in the City Lodge Hotel in Yeovil , a nicer town than we expected and made more attractive by all the beautiful huge baskets of hanging flowers. The hotel was right in town so very handy to lots of eating places although we chose to have both dinner and breakfast at Wetherspoons, a chain pub/restaurant where the meals are so cheap by NZ standards. On Sunday night we both had a nice roast dinner (beef and a big beer for Len and pork and a glass of wine for me) for under £9, ie less than $18 for both meals and drinks!! We returned there for breakfast - full English for Len and porridge for me - another good deal!

 

Our Yeovil accomodation

After driving from Yeovil to Heathrow area we stayed in little cheap lodgings (but not as cheap and no comparison to the Premier Inn where we had stayed on our arrival into London on an extra-special deal!) called the Heathrow Inn. It was very very basic but clean enough and the receptionist and Indian owners were friendly and welcoming. When we walked down to the shops we thought for a minute that we actually WERE in India - that was just until we saw the big red double-decker buses! So of course that night we had to eat in the nice but wierdly decorated Indian restaurant a few doors down. On chatting to the waiter we found that he has a brother living in Katikati! (about half an hour from where we live). 

Good authentic Punjabi food to be had here! 

This is the second person we have met here who has a brother in Katikati.

The other was Tom, one of Matt and Annas friends at the wedding, who has a brother working on a pig farm there!!

It is truly a small, small world!!