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The Regal Wedding
Saturday June 23 is a very big day for us. Our oldest daughter Jennifer is getting married to the love of her life, Rob McMahan in Newport Rhode Island. We left London Monday evening and arrived home in Boston about 10pm. Our week was the usual Boston busy with medical and dental appointments and catching…
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London with Donna
How many girlfriends do you have that would spend 20+ hours getting from Boston to London to spend five days with you? Well I can proudly say that my friend Donna Quirk did just that. While at work on the day she was to depart for what should be a 6.5 hour flight to London…
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Iceland with Emily
Jim is up at 03:30 Friday morning June 8 and out the door at 04:00 for an Uber expensive ride to Gatwick. The Uber cost more than the subsequent flight. The only public transportation before 05:00 is buses and he would have had to leave before 02:00 to make his flight to Keflavík where he…
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After the Royal Wedding, a week of London Theatre
We have been silent for two weeks but not inactive. The day after the wedding, we toured Kensington Palace which sits at the west end of Hyde Park. It’s open to the public as a museum but it is also the official residence for a number of select royals, 15 to be exact. The most…
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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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Prague
So we are on a six day side trip out of London to The Czech Republic to meet up with friends around the Prague marathon. We first met Brian Gerhardson at a St. Patrick’s day race in 1997 and watched him run the Marine Corps. marathon in October of the same year. That was his…
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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…
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Our last trip to Jerusalem
Wednesday April 11 is our last day for exploring as we will be packing up three months of assorted detritus on Thursday and flying out early on Friday. Our decision was to take one last trip to Jerusalem. We leave the house at 0720, take two buses and are in Jerusalem by 0900. We take…
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Final sunsets in Israel
We have less than two weeks left in Tel Aviv and we expect to make the most of our short time. Monday, April 2 is the 3rd day of Passover, which as the week evolved, we finally figured out is mostly a vacation week rather than a religious holiday. A lot of small vendors are…
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Pesach Sameach! Happy Passover! Happy Easter!
Friday March 30 was our day of preparation for the beginning of the Easter weekend and the six days of Passover. Our local hummus guy and the Falafel kiosk are both closed for the next six days. We stocked up on soup and hummus from Micha who makes the best soups and hummus which we…
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A little “Secret Tel Aviv” outing
Secret Tel Aviv is a web site that Sandy signed up for which tells about Tel Aviv’s best kept secrets of amazing events, celebrations, shops and best new bars & restaurants. The week of March 15 the event that caught our eye was a fund raiser being held at the home of the UK ambassador…