And it’s a typical British bank holiday weekend, cold and wet. Quite a change from the hot and sunny New York we just left.<\/p>\n
A long wait in the airport as the flight left about 3 hours late. I tried to sleep once on the flight so we haven’t eaten much. We both just dozed through the meals. Still sleepy though, absolutely exhausted. Trying to stay awake so we may do a ‘top tips for NY’ post later. Unless we fall asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And it’s a typical British bank holiday weekend, cold and wet. Quite a change from the hot and sunny New York we just left. A long wait in the airport as the flight left about 3 hours late. I tried to sleep once on the flight so we haven’t eaten much. We both just dozed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3988,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/oh-canada\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":0},"title":"Oh Canada!","date":"Saturday, 1 July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"So stayed at Gatwick airport last night, up early to head into the terminal and to our WestJet flight to Vancouver. I booked the holiday ages ago, but only just realised that tomorrow Canada celebrates it's 150th birthday. So this should be interesting . . .\u00a0 Had breakfast at Jamie's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/30\/first-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":1},"title":"First day","date":"Wednesday, 30 November 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all! We are here. Arrived yesterday afternoon - over an hour late but we arrived. The flight was long - very long. During most of the flight had no idea what time it was or even what day it was. Knew where we were, could see that on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":304,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/20\/long-long-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":2},"title":"Long long day","date":"Sunday, 20 December 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Very sleepy in Houston waiting to fly to Lexington. Flight left about an hour late, but we made it here in plenty of time to get our bags sorted and sit for ages waiting for another flight. Going to be an even longer day as we'll wait in Lexington to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/home-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":3},"title":"Home again","date":"Tuesday, 24 October 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We made it home. Back to boring blogs now. The flight was long. Very long. Joe slept and I read. Now feeling very tired and ready to go to bed but going to try to wait for another hour or two before going to sleep. Otherwise I'll just be awake\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/shopping\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":4},"title":"Shopping","date":"Saturday, 9 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"After a very good night's sleep and a long slow start to the day we went out shopping for last minute stuff. Yuck. We're right by the Outlet Mall so that's where we headed. Breakfast at Dunkin Doughnuts and then Joe was happy to shop until I dropped. But we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":303,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/at-the-airport\/","url_meta":{"origin":20,"position":5},"title":"At the airport","date":"Saturday, 19 December 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Waiting for the flight. Probably delayed. Most likely delayed as it's suppose to go at 10.05 and we're not even thinking about boarding! Oh well. Up far too early, here in plenty of time for the utter chaos that BA consider fast bag drop. None of the boards giving proper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}