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Canada Roadtrip, Newport to PEI
One of our bucket list items has been to take the scenic Canadian rail from Vancouver BC to Ontario. We planned and booked this trip last fall but had to cancel that trip due to some of life’s bumps in the road. Jim had a whole driving trip scheduled out on a spreadsheet, starting in…
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LONDON
We have written seven blogs from our most recent stay in London, all about our time with visiting friends and family. This final blog is focusing on our time alone. This is our fourth three month stay in the UK since 2018, with all but one month of that time spent in London. We have…
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Paris with Gayle and Mike 2017
Please note that this blog is covering our first venture into being homeless nomads. Initially we leased out our home in Boston and went to Paris for four months. We loved the lifestyle so much that we sold our cars and later our home. It has been very liberating to be free of all physical…
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Philip and Phyllis in London
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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London with Peggy
Peggy Scott moved into our neighborhood in 2007 and she literally changed our little section of Beacon Hill. She made friends with everyone and introduced us all to each other making it a much friendlier and loving neighborhood. Since selling our home in 2020 she has opened her home, heart and auto to us. We…
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London with Adam and Rebecca
Rebecca Yang and Adam Caper have visited us before in Paris, Rome, San Miguel de Allende, New Orleans and now London. Sandy and Rebecca were colleagues at Lahey Clinic where they forged a bond and friendship based on their mutual professional respect for each other. Rebecca and Adam married before we all became friends and…
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It all began in Paris
Our two recent trips to Paris caused us to be quite nostalgic about Paris, which prompted Sandy to revisit our 2017 Paris experience with a series of blogs. We were not blogging at the time so these are new for us. We went to Paris at least three times during our working careers and always…
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Paris is Always a Good Idea
On Tuesday August 6 Jim happened to see an article on the BBC about ” is now a good time to holiday in Paris?” He mentioned it to Sandy who read it and she said “why don’t we go to Paris and watch the closing ceremonies?” A few minutes later Jim had booked return Eurostar tickets…
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More Family in London
As noted in our last blog our greatest joy is having family and friends visit us at our various homes around the world. This blog covers the visits of six more family members. The first three arrived on July 17 from Salzburg flying into Luton airport. Elden and Evelyn Steen came with Evelyn’s 15 year…
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Family in London and Paris
Our greatest joy over our last seven years of travel has been visiting our extended family and having them come to visit us at our various homes around the world. We have a standing offer to all of our children and grandchildren for unlimited all expense paid trips to visit us wherever we may be.…
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London Four
This summer will be our fourth extended stay in London since starting our nomadic lifestyle. London One was in 2018 when we stayed May, June and July for what was then the hottest summer on record. Our flat was in West Kensington. London Two was July and August of 2019, staying at Earl’s Court and…
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Oregon
For Father’s Day weekend we rented a home on the Oregon Coast to gather the Steen Clan in what we hope will become an annual event. Son Geoff and family came from North Carolina, son Matt and family flew in from Colorado and daughter Emily and partner Tim hosted in their home state of Oregon.…
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After Amsterdam, Before Kew
It is now mid July. We left Amsterdam on June 4 and have crisscrossed the US the whole month of June to visit all five of our adult children, their partners and their offspring, our nine grandchildren. We landed in Boston on June 4 around 2pm and immediately drove 1.5 hours to Newport RI to…
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Ed & Andrea in Amsterdam
Ed and Andrea Conley are a couple that we try to get together with every time we are in New England on one of our three month breaks and they have a standing invitation to visit us anywhere in the world that we happen to be. Unfortunately, their lives are so busy that they have…
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Hönö with Preben & Sophie
We first met Preben Pedersen in Estella Spain on September 28 2022, the third night of our second Camino when we walked from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela. We were in a nice modern hotel that did our laundry and provided dinner in their dining room. The dining room was sparsley filled with five other…