Patsy Stoned

I am going back in March, just for a week, for my best friend's wedding. Anything below 24c is cold for me anyway lol

It will be fun, I am staying at the Carlton Towers Hotel which is a Jumeirah hotel so it will be "home from home" for me

Blue Cat

it's nice there, we stayed at the Loundes round the corner when we went to London a few years back, you will have a great time! right next to Harrods and Harvey Nicks

Meow

I've stayed there. Very pleasant & nice location.

It'll be very interesting to hear your views on the UK after having been away for so long.

ctfc

You've been an expat too long Patsy darling.

The only place you'll get that service is landing at the Spelthorne Suite, you'll be lucky if your plane has an airbridge at Heathrow.

Patsy Stoned

And Christian Louboutin's shop just round the corner

I won't be venturing too far Meow, the wedding is in The Kings road, the reception on a boat on the Thames. I have lunches and dinners arranged most days/nights and of course shopping

I think I will stay an expat too ctfc, I have no wish to return full time to the UK

zoukla

Depends how far inland from the airports you are going you will be in awe of how much the place is the same...
Depending also on where you are going the place is infested with a new breed...
CHAVS and ASBOS sometimes the same species.

Patsy Stoned

I'm going from Heathrow to Knightsbridge....I don't think it can be too traumatic darling
What is an ASBOS????

shakh your bootie

Darling, you have been out of the country for too long. an ASBO is a legal term referring to an Anti-Social Behaviour Order - it is a court order issued to a juvenile delinquent to attempt to restrict their behaviour (a half-arsed slap on the wrists given in lieu of a short sharp shock, dreamt up by Mr Blair and co).

In the vernacular, an ASBO has come to be a badge of honour bestowed on the meanest kids in the school (regrdless of whether they have actually been issued and ASBO or not)....

Millhouse

Christ, you are in for a disappointment.

Patsy Stoned

I think I will be ok darling, I don't intend to travel far and I won't use public transport

Blue Cat

I got the tube to Oxford Street once, won't do that again, I was terrified! taxi'd after that all the time!

Patsy Stoned

It doesn't scare me darling, I just don't have anything to wear on a bus or the tube!!!

Blue Cat

Luckily I had a fake fur which is in the UK or you could have borrowed it, it you fancy getting a nice one though I saw a fabulous one the other day in Wallis, let me see if I can find a link for it

edited to add, can't find on website!

Patsy Stoned

I have a lovely blue fox jacket that I wear occasionally here . I have a nice trench coat that will keep me cosy warm over there. I guess I can't wear the real fur thing over there

Blue Cat

if you wanted to be all PC then no, but ......