Flew to Bembridge on Saturday from France. What a nice, welcoming place!
The people in the tower happily faxed a customs form to the airfield in Normandy where we'd stopped for lunch, and they went out of their way to be helpful. When we showed up the next day for our flight back to France, they had a printed copy of the French TAFs waiting for us, unasked. They made sure that we had priority on fuel from their bowser, which was running low, and they made all of us want to go back.
At the Propellor Inn, if anybody knows the name of the barman who was working there on Saturday afternoon, please thank him (again!). We asked him if he knew of anywhere to stay, and he took it upon himself to phone around everywhere he knew to find rooms for 8 of us - which was not an easy task on a hot summer weekend. He then arranged a minibus to take us to the hotel he'd found, and he refused to accept any contribution for his trouble or for the telephone costs.