United Kingdom: Here I Come!

So, with a mere two hours before I step on the plane, I'm writing, keeping in spirit this blog as a travel diary, I'm off, to the United Kingdom, again... this will be the 4th time I've been there in my lifetime. Mostly, I'm going because almost all of my extended family lives in England, but I'm hoping, being much older and not the same person that had gone there years before, that this will be a much more enlightening experience than previous excursions. I'll largely be staying in the London area, so I'm hoping to get a good time share in what I think is one of the greatest cities on earth. I'm also expecting to take trips up to northern england, wales, and maybe a short trip to France and/or Spain.

Right now, I'm being plagued with customary butterflies in the few hours before I leave, which is odd, because I've got 9 hours of plane travel ahead of me, and I've learned to hate plane travel, especially the Vanouver->Heathrow flight, which I have to sit there for 8 straight hours in a seat I can never get quite comfortable in. In total I'll be leaving Penticton on an hour flight to Van, then a 2 hour layover, then 8 hours on to Heathrow, the main airport in London. From there, I have no idea... but I'm sure I won't be disappointed.