The journey has begun!

I wrote the following a couple weeks ago, before arriving in South France, and coming down with Covid 🙁  I tested positive, and had pretty severe symptoms for over a week,  but am coming around finally. I will get back on the regular email train soon, so stay tuned. 

We are adding a link to Sharons Facebook Photos page, so you can see some of the beautiful sights we have seen. She is going to start adding captions where appropriate, so you know what you are looking at.  Thanks for understanding and please stay well!!

It’s going to be a Looong journey, and there are a few stops along the way, so we hope you enjoy the trip. And to explain this initial post, and the really late edition of the trip so far, I tested positive for Covid the day after we arrived in So France, and it has been literally kicking my Butt. I am on the mend now, but Sharon has a pretty nasty cold, even though she is still testing negative. I will be sending a couple updates in the next week or so, so stay tuned.

We left our home in Everett on Jan 19, and had planned to spend a week with my daughter in NY. Unfortunately we found out the day before we were scheduled to fly on the 19th, that she tested positive for Covid again, for the 3rd time in 2+ years, and the 2nd time in less than 3 months 🙁

So we had to change our plans. But we needed to go to NY to get our passports, which were couriered to her from the  Visa office in Wa DC, after our work Visas were approved (that’s another story entirely, but that will have to be detailed in the book :-0.

So, instead of spending the week in NY, we decided to do so in London, since Sharon had never been, and it is an Awesome city!!

And before we actually head to France, we are first going to stop off and visit my other daughter, Camille, in Luxembourg. She has been kind enough offer to loan us her car until we can buy our own.  

I am including a few pics of our stay in Chelsea, where we are staying for the week. We found a nice little (& I mean Little) hotel room, for a Very reasonable price, that includes a washer/dryer combo, a 2 burner stovetop, fridge & microwave, so we can enjoy some incredible yogurt & fruit, coffee and wonderful local pastries in our room, before heading out to walk the city. We are averaging 6-7 miles a day, so we are definitely getting our steps in.

Yesterday we decided to go see Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and that general area. We took one of those double decker buses (with no driver on the top:-), and walked the area for a few hours. Of course we had to stop at The Albert, one of London’s legendary pubs, for a half-pint and a nosh, before heading back to Chelsea for the evening.

The first 2 pics are of Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, and the next 2 are of 2 different directional views from our hotel.

After our week in London, we headed to Luxembourg to spend a week with my daughter Camille, and I will send more pics soon. But for even more (And Better) pictures, please send a FB friend request to Sharon, if you already friends, as she takes a Zillion pics and posts the frequently!

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