Ah....but we did manage to squeeze this trip in! Last Saturday we flew an el cheapo airline ("EasyJet") from London to Milan. From there we took a car (150 euros) up to Bellagio on Lake Como - which is right smack in the middle of the lake. We enjoyed a preview of the mountainous beauty [...]
A week ago, we returned home from our wonderful 6-day excursion to Paris. Sorry it's taken me so long for the report. But, as you'll see, there was a lot to cover! This was our big trip for the month of May. It was planned around some business meetings Inez had in Paris. We travelled [...]
Okay. We're really humming along here in London now. It really doesn't take long for me to get up to speed! Our London experience keeps getting better and better. We pretty much know what, where, and how to do a whole lot of things. Eating out, "topping off" our cellphones, getting around on the buses, [...]
So as you can see we've done a lot so far! Here are links to some of those places: Cutty Sark National Maritime Museum National Army Museum Horniman Museum The Monument - (to the Great Fire of London 1666) Battersea Park HMS Belfast Tower of London Harrod's Harry Potter Studios Inez has been jetting off [...]
I STRONGLY believe that Minecraft is a horrible thing. The number of shiftless teens and young adults who are addicted to the tune of 12+ hours a day is troubling enough. But I submit even worse are the younger kids who are inhaling this poisonous mind drug. Of course these kids are completely enabled by [...]
The first clip is just some of the raw footage I shot. The second video, below, is more instructive as it features my artful narration: Friday Our plane leaves London's Heathrow airport at 6:15 pm. The flight is only 50 minutes but we lose an hour on the time change. Cab to Marriott on Stadhouderskade [...]
Alright the "ivory" was some of the paint color. And this "tower", not withstanding the 16 ft ceilings, is only on the second floor of the apartment building. Although here in London the Brits refer to the second floor as the "first floor"! Some of the books in that video can be found on my [...]
Sorry. We've been so busy that I haven't had time to update... Week 2 We finally had our belongings delivered from the States! Our PCs, the piano keyboard, our kitchen stuff, the rest of our clothing, our books and workbooks,... It was only then that I discovered how much my daughter and my wife OVERPACKED! [...]
As someone who's never played the piano, I'm continually and increasingly amazed at watching his fingers move all over the keyboard. The piano is a core part of our "curriculum" and it has traveled to London with us. And we've hired a piano instructor already too. An hour of practice per day, maybe a little [...]
Last Friday we arrived early in the morning, local time. It was quite a struggle to "ring" the real estate agent....and get her to meet us at our new apartment. My wife's Blackberry wasn't functioning (or was it, but we just didn't know how to dial UK numbers?) and it seems we were given the [...]
