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Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

Mick. Welcome back. We missed you. Gosh that M25 scenario sounds a nightmare.

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Thanks Tom

We touched down at 6.30 and it could have been a bit sooner but the pilot slowed down as he said there would be no ground crew to meet us.

Back in our car at 7.30 (official valet parking at the airport was fine and only a couple of miles on the clock ) and set off round the M25 in very heavy rain. By the time we reached Heathrow the rain had turned to serious snow and we heard from our daughter who lives in Rugby that our home destination was becoming "challenging". We normally use the M40 but we thought that the hilly roads between Banbury and Rugby would be impossible so we said we'd stay on the M25 and use the M1.

By the time we'd got near the M1 though we saw that was a disaster as well and as our youngest lives in Brentwood we asked if we could crash with her for the night. She was only 50 miles away then it was the obvious choice. Our satnav said "Distance to destination 47 miles" for nearly 3 hours. :angry::angry:

It was a dreadful drive but had we made the decision to go to Brentwood when we were at LGW we would only have driven 25% round the M25 and not the 75% that we ended up doing.

The better decision with hindsight of course would have been to leave the car at LGW and book a night in the Premier Inn.

Mick