Family visit to Ida's new house

Ida and Phil bought a house last year. We were so pleased and Ham wanted to visit.  So we decided on a late April 2015 visit, hoping that it'd be quite warm then.  Eton, Nani (Awang's wife) and Bobby (Eton's son) came with us to make a group of 5.

Ida picked us up at London Heathrow (LHR) airport on the 21st April at Terminal 4. The Airbus 380 MH 004 was quite full and going through Immigration took quite a bit of time.  We emerged at 6 something to be greeted by Ida who had waited since 2 hours earlier. We then piled into the 7 seater Alhambra (Spanish) van for the drive to Stroud.  It was still daylight; sunset being around 8:30 pm.

Eton had booked a flat in Stroud at the Bell House.  Quite a nice place and close to Tesco (by car) and the railway station (by foot.)

Ham and I stayed with Ida at her place called Hillside (no house number) in The Edge on a no-name road (one moves around by GPS using Postcodes in England, just like being in a kampung in Malaysia except for the Poskod bit.) Her place is 4x4 country really with farms all round. Good thing Enterprise car-hire gave us a 4x4. And the view from her lounge is stunningly picture perfect.

We needed a car to move around, so on 23 Apr we hired a Nissan X-Trail 4x4. Actually we just needed an automatic but they had only this 4x4 for the same price at GBP 148 per week.  Add full insurance cover and another driver, the cost finally came to GBP 531.