Bonjour Pilgrims......
Last week we spent an amazing long weekend in London and everyone had a great time but WOW was it expensive. Don't worry, no specifics here but let's just say that beers were regularly over 7 pounds (roughly $12.00) and that's for one beer.
We toured The Globe Theater and The Tate Modern Gallery as well as the National Gallery off Trafalgar Square. We also toured the Tower of London and saw the Crown Jewels there and Saturday we spent the entire day in Greenwich and toured the Royal Naval College and went up the hill to the Observatory where the International Date Line is and had lunch up there. It was a beautiful day in fact all of the days we were there were really nice save for the last one which was breezy and cool but we weren't sight seeing that day and just loaded up and went to the train station for lunch and a little light shopping before we caught the Euro-Star back to Paris. Pretty cool to be traveling by train under the English Channel at 300 kph. 2 hours and 15 minutes to Paris from London. Now that's civilization even if it cost a fortune.
The latest on my continuing medical adventure is that the holes in my hands I'd mentioned in the past were actually infections which I'm now undergoing another BIG anti-biotic course of treatment for. Other than that, I'm still taking lots of drugs, and sleeping fitfully but overall doing well. Hopefully as the Summer progresses I'll continue to improve or at least get to a place where managing this disease becomes more routine.
We have more travel planned for this Summer which includes a visit back home for Cassie, Kian and Niall, but like I did back in the 70s, I plan on staying here for the duration as everyone or anyone who might want to see me knows where I am so I hope they decided to visit. If not, I'll catch up with them a couple of years down the line. I truly AM loving living in Paris and the EU even with the foibles that come with that. I'm blessed with a great family and friends here as well as back home. Hopefully one day everyone else will post to this blog besides me but until then you're stuck with me.
Love to all everywhere!
A bientot,
Sid
