Our First European Experience

We left our house at 2:00 pm (mst) and arrived at the home of Pachi and Christina at 10:00 pm (local Spanish time)the next day in Burgos Spain. Spain is 8 hours ahead of Spanish time which means it took 24 hours from door to door. The trip was uneventful for the most part. When we landed in London we had a 2 hour layover. We were very tired of course. There was a section of 4 seats we were sitting in just outside our departure gait for Spain. I stood up to get something from my pack (about 3 feet from my seat). As I was looking for it a Spanish man about 23yo started to sit down in my seat. Lynette told him that the seat was taken he sat down anyway. Our first experience with either not being heard, not being understood or just a plain rude European. It's a better story to think he was just rude but in reality he just didn't understand or hear. Anyway a long trip with a very friendly family to greet us at the end.