Category: London
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The Royal Wedding
May 19, 2018: Today we will go to Windsor England and try to catch a glimpse of one of the most controversial weddings in the long history of the British Royal Family. Our guests this week are Caitlyn Conley and Pierre Moretti. Caitlyn is the daughter of our friend Ed Conley whose wife is Andrea. […]
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A week of museums
We took a down day or two after Andrew & Henry left us. Our down days usually involve running a few miles in the morning and then doing New York Times crosswords, working on our pictures and this blog, reading or watching a movie. It has been difficult to watch movies or TV shows as […]
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Hampton Court Palace
We are being stalked, Andrew & Henry followed us to Prague and now they suddenly show up in London four days later. Henry used to be Dick, his name is Henry Richard Maniace, Jr. known as Dick all his life but now reverting to Henry as his passport and all other legal documents refer to Henry. […]
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Kew Gardens
While spending last week in Prague with our Boston neighbor Peggy Scott she strongly urged us to see Kew Gardens while we are in London. We arrived back in London on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning we decided to walk the five miles to Kew Gardens. We walked directly to the Thames and then followed the […]
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First week in London
We are so excited to be here. While all of our previous destinations have been fantastic, fulfilling, exciting, educational and fun filled, London is even more. Jim really feels as if he has returned to his roots as everything just synchs with his psyche. The people, the language and accent, the courtesy, the civility, the culture, […]
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On to London
On April 13 we were up at 05:00 and in a taxi on the way to Ben Gurion International Airport by 06:30. Our Airbnb host Guy insisted on being there to help us carry our luggage down 30 stairs to the ground floor and he had a taxi waiting for us. Getting out of Israel […]
Living the retirement dream 