I had to laugh when our bus driver exclaimed "I've never seen the traffic that bad." after it took us 3 1/2 hours to get back to London/Gatwick Airport. It wasn't that bad, clearly his guy had never driven in Toronto.
Sure, it was busy, but Wimbledon was also happening nearby, so I don't know what he expected. Here's some traffic pictures and a cool sign we saw the next day as we entered the airport to head home.
This just looked like Toronto traffic to me. Definitely not the worst I'd ever seen and the scenery was, for the most part, a lot nicer than Toronto's.
We were forced to head back to Horley/the nasty B and B for the night before catching our flight in the morning. Had we been able to cancel online we would have, but we didn't have net access. Nothing had changed. We still found ourselves getting a cool reception (at one point the owner's wife said to her hubby, tell them the room will be ready in 20 minutes and I was standing right there!)
Then Mom made the mistake of asking if she could get water from the cooler in the front room just as we were leaving for the airport and the woman actually said "We like to keep that for people going out for the day." Hello? We were going out and we were paying customers.
I reviewed the place on tripadvisor and the owner responded saying "they would have cleared up misunderstandings" but WE didn't say anything. What's to say? "Get a clue, and be more hospitable?" "Stop being so uptight?" Of course, now we see better places in the area. Hindsight is always 20/20.
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