Two Plus One: Rye, Sussex

We headed over to the UK for Thanksgiving week and had a BLAST! I do have a couple suggestions for anyone wanting to travel international with small children: First, your child is too big to be a lap child. I don't care how big or tiny your baby is he/she is too big. Second, even if your flight leaves right around bed time no one will sleep like planned, everyone will stay up ALL night. Third, do it! Even though we had a couple rough patches with Cole I am so glad he came with us! Here is what Cole looks like after staying up all night.

Here's what Ryan looks like, haha, good thing I was the one with the camera.

We flew into Heathrow and everyone was so kind at the airport. They let us jump the line at customs because we had a little one. We then hopped on the Heathrow Express to Paddington Station. From there we hopped on the tube to St Pancras station and then hopped on a train destined for Rye. Public transportation is amazing! (my suggestion for anyone going to London, would be not to take the Heathrow express unless you are in a rush, definitely more expensive).

This is the view from the doorway of the apartment we stayed in. This arch was build in 1369!!! Rye was on the coast back in the day and was run by the smuggling gangs! It has a very interesting history!

This is a picture of the restaurant right next to the arch. It was closed the entire time we were there, but I thought it looked like it could be a part of a Christmas village!

And this is a picture of our apartment. It was teeny, tiny. I don't think we got any pictures of the inside. It had a wonderful wood-burning fire place the we took advantage of every night!

Walking through the arch this is the view you see just down the road. I'm telling you, Christmas village! We really felt like we walked into a story book!