Horley Favorites

Favorite thing: The pointer on the map shows Horley's location, on the southern outskirts of London and so close to Gatwick Airport that you could walk to it if you had to. In our case, we had an overnight flight from Canada into Heathrow Airport on the western outskirts of London. By the time we had gone through all the formalities and picked up our rental car, it was 11:30 AM. Since we had an afternoon to put in, we made the decision to use the M25 motorway circling the city to quickly head south for a quick peek at Horley. It was no problem at all and we found ourselves parked and walking around the centre of the town in less than an hour.

Fondest memory: After buying ourselves a phone card for use in England, our first priority of business was to find Ye Olde Six Bells pub, where we had last eaten in 1979 - afterall, it was well past noon by now. With that taken care of, we drove the short distance to the site of Sue's parents former home and got out to have a closer look at it - not much had really changed in all those years. Having satisfied ourselves with Horley, and with darkness arriving early in Winter, we took the scenic cross-country route to Farnham (shown in 'Blue' on the map, as opposed to the 'Black' route we took around southern England in February, 2004). In making our way to Cornwall this time, we drove down along the north coast of Devon and Cornwall before shooting back to London mostly along the same 'black' route as before.