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Edinburgh
We spent two weeks in Scotland in June/July of 2016. The first five days were spent in Edinburgh with Peggy, Margaret, Tina, Dick and Andrew. The three women left us alone with the stalkers and returned home as they had been in London prior to joining us in Edinburgh. We spent another week driving to…
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Croatia, Last Ten Days
As mentioned in a prior blog, Sue Rhodes did extensive research for this trip and all of the accommodations have been spot on terrific. We cannot thank Sue enough for all that she did to bring this trip together so smoothly. Thank you Sue. And so ends our summer in Copenhagen and Croatia. What a…
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Neil & Audrey in Copenhagen
We know the O’connors from our prior life in medicine. Neil and Audrey have visited us in Paris, Mexico City Madrid, Kyoto, New Orleans, Amsterdam and now Copenhagen. Our time with them is notable for the most laughs, the most miles of daily walking and the most money spent on food and women’s clothing and…
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Copenhagen with Even More Family
Our eldest child Jennifer, husband Rob and son Jackson are coming from Newport RI to spend our last four days in Copenhagen with us and then they will accompany us to Croatia and spend three days in Kukci. Jen and Rob have spent time with us in Paris in 2017, London in 2019, New Orleans…
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Croatia With Family and Friends
Our friends from New Zealand, Helen and Sue started planning a trip to Croatia with us last August. The original plan for them was a river cruise in France with friends and then meeting another mutual friend, Sue Klesniks to drive to Croatia together. These two girls planned a 13 day trip and had booked…
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Copenhagen with Paul & Sigi
What memorable experiences we have had with these two very dear friends who we only met in London in 2018. We have been back to London three times since then and we always spend time with them as Sigi is an accomplished chef and has fixed numerous delicious, memorable meals for us. They have also…
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More Family in Copenhagen
Our youngest offspring James Geoffrey Steen is married to a Swedish girl Sofi Wallin and they have three daughters, Bhavanii who is 12; Freya, 8 and Gaorii or Gigi who is 6. They have been in Sweden visiting Sofi’s sister, brother and mother. Her sister and mother live in Mora but her brother Matias and…
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Copenhagen
When we are alone in any city we like to explore different areas of the city as we will do the most important tourist sites with our visiting house guests. We have around two weeks in Copenhagen when we are completely alone. This is a series of sequential pictures of our wanderings so there is…
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Family in Copenhagen
We have been roaming the world for eight years and four of our five children have come to visit us at least two times. We are finally privileged to be able to host our third child, Matthew, and his family. We did spend two months in San Francisco in 2017 while attending Matt and Claire’s…
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Braverman’s in Copenhagen
Jennifer Ludlum Braverman worked with Jim in the Emergency Department and then with Sandy in the PACU at Lahey Clinic. She then met Igor Braverman while working in the PACU as he was an anesthesiologist. We have watched them through their courtship, marriage, childbirth and parenting of Sophie. Jennifer and Sophie visited us in London in 2019…
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Copenhagen First Week
Denmark is a new country for both of us and we are really looking forward to the cooler temperatures after three months in Medellin and then SE Asia with continual 80’s and 90’s. We have had a lovely three and a half weeks stateside in Newport, RI; Asheville, NC and Boston seeing six of our…
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A Quick Stopover in Doha Qatar
We flew through Doha on our flight to Bangkok but only had a few hour stopover. Flying from Hanoi to Boston involved a longer stopover which we extended to 20 hours with our bags checked through which allowed us to book a hotel and a four hour tour of the city. That’s all folks. We…
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Hanoi Last Day
Can’t believe we have spent 54 days touring in SE Asia, but our memories of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia seem like a long time ago. We have been in Vietnam for 24 days and leave for “home” tomorrow and are we ready. What a good time we have had being waited on hand and foot…
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Hanoi Day Two
On this 53rd day we are scheduled for a Jeep adventure and we have asked to also visit the “Hanoi Hilton” where American soldiers and pilots were jailed, some for years. John McCain was the most famous inmate. The following documentary refers to the American POW’s. We wished that we had rushed through the Vietnamese…
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Hanoi Day One
We have only three days left in this amazing tour of SE Asia and are really looking forward to seeing more of Hanoi. So ends day one in Hanoi which only started after our four hour drive. Tomorrow will be even busier.