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Day-trip to Delft and Leiden
A day trip to Delft would have been better combined with The Hague as Delft is just past The Hague and Leiden is before The Hague, but we did not do the research ahead of time. Phyllis really wanted to go to the Delft factory as she has been collecting pieces for years. We visited…
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The Hague with Philip & Phyllis
Philip and Phyllis’s primary goal in going to The Hague was to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius. Philip loves these two works and has painted copies of them for himself. It was a cold, blustery and rainy day but we headed out anyway. In spite of the…
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Haarlem
It seems that every tourist coming to Amsterdam wants to tour the Anne Frank house which puts quite a squeeze on tickets. They have made it somewhat fair for everyone by releasing a week’s worth of tickets six weeks in advance on Tuesday morning at 10am. Six weeks is a reasonable time frame for planning…
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Bruges
Bruges or Brugge is the capital and largest city of West Flanders in Belgium. It is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the north along with other cities like Amsterdam. This city has been on our must see list for a long time and since Bill and Katiti were also keen to go we…
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Philip & Phyllis in Amsterdam
Jim’s younger brother Philip and his wife Phyllis live in the backwoods of western North Carolina. They love where they live and have a very good life surrounded by their three children and seven grandchildren. Phyllis had never been to Europe prior to visiting us in Seville in 2020. She and Philip just thoroughly embraced…
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Amsterdam
We have been to Amsterdam twice in the past. Most recently in 2019 when we took the Eurostar from London with Jennifer, Jackson, Rob and his mother Kiki. The first time was in 2008, flying out on March 13 just one day prior to Sandy’s birthday. This time we are arriving in 2024 on March…
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Family in San Diego and Phoenix
Jim’s mother was born in Pontiac Michigan but her family drove across country to San Diego sometime in the early 1920’s as her younger sister Clela was born in San Diego in 1925. Jim remembers visiting his grandparents Fuller and their oldest son Robert at their home on Ohio Street in the North Park section…
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San Diego with Maeve
Maeve was a neighbor of ours in Boston living in the penthouse of the brownstone next to ours in Boston. We don’t really remember exactly when we met her as she kind of snuck into our lives, first as the girlfriend of our next door neighbor John Greene and then as his wife. We have…
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San Diego with Tom and Donna
Tom and Donna Quirk have been visiting us on our travels ever since our very first venture to Paris in 2017. They are such easy and fun houseguests as they are completely self sufficient and they research and plan new adventures for us to enjoy together. Donna is very active and will go out running or walking…
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Palm Springs with friends
We started planning a reunion weekend in Palm Springs, where Dick and Andrew are living, many months ago. Peggy Scott, Tina Scarlata and Debbie Maniace Ireland planned to fly from Boston and Margaret Deutsch who lives in Great Barrington was going to fly from Hartford. Of course the trip was planned with no thoughts about the weather. The…
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San Diego, Barrio Logan and the Botanical Garden
We love our house guests, but we also love our down time by ourselves when we tend to explore less touristy parts of cities and find our off the beaten path treasures. We have only two days to ourselves after Jenn and Rob but we make the most of them.
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San Diego with Jen and Rob
As we have said many times, the leading joy of our itinerant lifestyle is having family and friends come to visit. That being said, the ultimate joy is having our eldest child and husband visit. Jennifer and Rob provide us with a home base in Newport Rhode Island where we keep our clothes and forty boxes of…
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San Diego with Joel and Lacey
One of the real joys of our itinerant lifestyle is the pleasure of welcoming friends and family into our various homes and then being able to explore our new city while also reconnecting our longstanding relationships. Joel is the son of Jim’s brother David and is one of a host of nieces and nephews that we…
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San Diego
Our winter stays have been the most challenging to date as we are looking for a desirable city with a perfect climate, 55-75℉ or 15-25°C. We are not interested in beach resorts but really need the big city. Our winters to date have been spent in Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Seville, San Miguel de Allende and New…
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El Camino de Santiago, from Baiona to Santiago
We have now walked for eight days and had two days off and are looking forward to six more days of walking to Santiago de Compostela with two 16 mile days scheduled. It has been just over two months since our last day on the Camino de Santiago and the memories and emotions still bring…