Here I thought that I would be doing the first flight relatively alone in terms of people going from Chicago to London. But apparently I wasn't the only one who took advantage of the great deals at the end of the low season. Next to me at check-in …

A whirlwind tour of the entirety of England (and a jaunt into Scotland) to figure out what I wanted to do future times there. I didn't do a lot of touristy things since I was mainly there to watch football (soccer) in pubs and go to a couple matches.