Thomas,
I live near Llangollen, in North Wales, about 5 miles from the Shropshire border, on a south facing hillside with the best view in the world (and possibly the worst weather!).
I don't have 300 hours yet, only 260 (well, 261.3 to be precise!). I know exactly, since I need that extra 38.7 before I can do an instructors course, and it looks like I'm going to have to pay for them myself.
Ah well, I'm sure I can find some more interesting flying somewhere in the world, and hopefully still afford to eat.
An update, since this thread seems to be alive again. I did the flying and written test last week for the R44, and will have the type rating as soon as the CAA get around to sending it to me. No problems at all, despite horrible weather and a non-hydraulic R44 which I wasn't used to. But I thought I'd have problems with the B206, and I did. I went up for an hour with an instructor just to see how I got on, and found out that basically a "quickie" transition course, lots of flying straight and level, and all of it left seat, really doesn't equal a proper training course. The US stuff was excellent fun, good experience, and good for what I paid; I'm not complaining. Maybe someone else who learns quicker than I do would cope better; I don't know. I'm just passing this on for the benefit of anyone else thinking of doing what I did.