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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 1243770" data-attributes="member: 32998">The area just West of Heathrow contains some pretty English places - Windsor, Ascot etcExcellent! I was going to say this is going back and forwards as much as the best of the id threads <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />  . . and we've got a couple more months to carry on!! (Hopefully not ending up in RF though!)Some more points - do your english friends have a car? If you have 3 hours (take off half an hour to escape, 2 hours to get back in plus an extra half hour, then doing the local area becomes more do-able with your remaining 3 hours . . . you really wouldn't want to stay in the airport if you found it was possible to escape . . . Not forgetting you won't have to go through the hold baggage queues . . .Is you flight on a weekday or w/e - it may be quieter at Heathrow at some times???Have you tried Birdingpals? Maybe not appropriate in this case . . but you may find there's birders in the west side of heathrow who've met birders off planes on layovers before. . .There was a book published a year or so ago about Birding the Major Cities near Airports. . .  Don't know exact title, but I'd imagine it could contain some info on the doability of layovers -they must have done some research. Anyone know the title??EDIT; What a popular thread, I see you've answered half the above in your previous post lol <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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