{"id":1031,"date":"2019-08-09T03:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:08:28","slug":"the-long-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/2019\/08\/09\/the-long-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"The long wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8 August 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we gathered at the Surrey at 0730, poised and anticipating a bit of packing , a bit of breakfast and an expeditious journey to Heathrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our splendid transport appeared on time, ready to spirit us on our journey. A coach of impressive length that the driver managed to park outside the Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waved away by Matty Ensor and \u2026&#8230;,\u00a0 we set off&#8230;.. backwards, past the NRA pavilion before then driving forwards onto Exhibition Lawn. Once there we thought we would just turn through 180\u00ba and travel forwards! But no, we soon found ourselves in reverse once more, this time towards the Gresham&#8217;s Hut. By now, various giggles were breaking out before finally setting off to our destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once at Heathrow, all went well, Air Canada were ready for us even though we had to open all the rifle boxes for \u201cBorder Force\u201d. We even had time for a spot of lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The flight left on time and our sweet little twin engined Airbus duly arrived in Montreal on schedule at 1635 local time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Customs were kind and actually very pleasant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We arrived at Budget Rent a Car at 1830. At the time of writing it is now 2030 local time and we still await our vans. Budget by name Budget by brain. Peanuts and Monkeys come to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Captain has observed that the previous comment is unfair to Monkeys!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2300 hours Montreal time \u2013 0400 BST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The final van was made available to us at 2145 \u2013 a mere 3 hours and fifteen minutes after our arrival to collect vehicles booked a some 5 months ago. A 40 minute drive was all it then took for the 5 remaining team members to reach our accommodation for the night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our Captain has been busy scribing in his \u201cfines\u201d book. The team can hardly wait to discover what heinous crimes they are to be falsely accused of, and of course what the penalties will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breakfast at 0700, then off to Quebec.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knackered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ZZZZ<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 August 2019 Bright eyed and bushy tailed, we gathered at the Surrey at 0730, poised and anticipating a bit of packing , a bit of breakfast and an expeditious journey to Heathrow. Our splendid transport appeared on time, ready<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishtwenty.org.uk\/canada2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}