Quick update!

Well... I'm going to try and keep this a truly short and quick update. There will be much more to post once I get home.

That's right, once I get home.

I'm sitting here in an internet cafe in Harrogate. I had hoped to get a flight home yesterday, but unfortunately there were only 3 free seats and I was number 4 on the standby list. Then I was told that they had changed the aircraft type - my flight over was on a A330 Jumbo jet - very big - and after Sunday they were changing it to a 757 (not a jumbo jet) and were like 80+ people overbooked for the remainder of the week. Lovely. Anyway I need to get home, so DH and I bit the bullet and paid for a very expensive one-way flight home. That only gets me to Philly. On Tuesday. At 630pm. I don't know yet how I am going to make it the rest of the way home - whether I am going to take a train to Union Station and then Metro home, or try and get my Dad to drive me back, or I don't know what. Once I get back to Philly, I guess I can try and figure that all out. Fun!

Things here have otherwise been pretty good. It's a nice little town, decent little house, and except for all of the little annoyances (it takes like 4 weeks to set up a telephone, and then another 2 to get internet - what is this, the stone ages?) it'll be pretty easy to adjust. Much easier than I anticipated, really. I've got tons of humorous observations (when the Romans left, they clearly took all knowledge of plumbing technology with them), some minor complaints (see plumbing issues) and lots of things to like well enough. I think it will be a fairly interesting but comfortable 3 years.

Enough for now... I'll write again when (if?) I make it home.

BTW Jeffro - you would LOVE Harrogate. You could just sit on a bench on the main "roundabout" coming into town and just marvel at all the various cars.