Hi Mom,
I know with the recent attack in Manchester and the threat level being increased, you must be worried about me. Just wanted you to know that we arrived here in London safe and sound and will be walking or cabbing most places rather than taking the tube.
Lots of love,
Richard
Linda flies to London today and the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace is June 1. I'm so excited for her!
"I leave on Wednesday, arrive Thursday. We go to Canada House at Trafalgar Square to pick up our tickets to the "big event" on Friday. Saturday we're having dinner with old friends at Bexleyheath. They've made a reservation at a steak place. That's funny because Jean is vegetarian but they have lots of fish and pasta dishes. Monday I have tickets to 42nd Street at the Drury Theatre in downtown London and on Tuesday Jean has invited the family over. That will be lots of fun! The big day is Thursday! Jean arranged for a "car" to pick us up. She was horrified I wanted to do the train! I still wouldn't care but she said no one goes to a Buckingham Palace Garden party by public transport! Too funny....wouldn't bother me at all although we would look out of place."
Linda flies to London today and the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace is June 1. I'm so excited for her!
"I leave on Wednesday, arrive Thursday. We go to Canada House at Trafalgar Square to pick up our tickets to the "big event" on Friday. Saturday we're having dinner with old friends at Bexleyheath. They've made a reservation at a steak place. That's funny because Jean is vegetarian but they have lots of fish and pasta dishes. Monday I have tickets to 42nd Street at the Drury Theatre in downtown London and on Tuesday Jean has invited the family over. That will be lots of fun! The big day is Thursday! Jean arranged for a "car" to pick us up. She was horrified I wanted to do the train! I still wouldn't care but she said no one goes to a Buckingham Palace Garden party by public transport! Too funny....wouldn't bother me at all although we would look out of place."
Today, Elaine leaves from Rome for a four week cruise that takes her to Spain, Gibraltar, France, Portugal, Ireland, Saint-Pierre & Miquelon, Newfoundland, Quebec and ending in Montreal.
Dear Janice,
What a treat to arrive on the "Insignia" and hook up the IPAD and find a message waiting from you. We didn't bother with the internet while in Rome. It is such a long flight from Victoria to Vancouver to Frankfurt (that airport is still a nightmare and we were at the far end in international space and had to get to domestic to get the flight to Rome and were near the last to board) and finally to board. You know the drill and is why people are not so keen to travel any more. We had left Victoria at 2:30 pm on the Sat. and arrived at our Rome Hotel at 4:30 pm on Sunday! Our hotel was great and had an outside patio on the top floor with lots of tables and chairs and awnings for shade. We also had our breakfast up there as well as spent from 3:30 - 5:30 just getting out of the sun and heat (very hot). There was a little mini market across the street from our hotel so we enjoyed refrigerated cold Prosecco while on the patio!! You would have been proud of me - you trained me well. Our travel agent had organized a shuttle to pick us up and drive us to Rome's "port". We were expecting a shuttle bus of some size but were treated to a Jaguar - just us - very luxurious. The driver got us to the ship in 95 minutes so we boarded about noon to a wonderful lunch. I had a steak cooked fresh done perfectly rare! First time I've had a steak for lunch! There are only 680 passengers so a delightfully uncrowded ship. We are at sea today but arrive in Barcelona first thing tomorrow.
Much Love, Elaine
