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@Mister_Baxter
I've been there too... Both ways. That's the trouble with modern britain - so many physical greetings going that you never know which one to go with. Air kiss? Mediterranean double kiss? Man-hug? Handshake? Fist-bump? The armwrestle-position hand-grip?
As an aside, there's an old politican's handshake trick - when out pressing the flesh among the workers, it used to be quite common for some beefy miner or suchlike to reach out to shake a politician's hand, then give it a serious crushing - that soft office-based hand had no chance against an old-school manual worker. So the canny politician would always grasp the person's elbow with their other hand. It seems extra-chummy and sincere, but then if they go for the hard squeeze, you can dig a finger into the funny-bone pressure point. Bill Clinton used that move all the time.