Our first trip is really more of a vacation ... well holiday. We have gone back to calling our time off holidays - from the English 'holy-day' i.e. a sacred time, rather than our more usual American vacation ('vacate') - i.e. escape from daily life. Our days are now more happy and so we have less need to escape. So now we holiday .... just a thought!
Anyway, we are long overdue a trip back to England to visit Andy's family. But, now we're freer, we decided to turn a week trip back to London to a longer trip. So a week in London (via Frankfurt, Germany) with family then moves into a week and half across the north of England visiting lots of new places - first to Newcastle, then York, Manchester, Liverpool and Chester. And then we meet up with a good friend Gina (from California) which in itself is an adventure - we plan to meet at a train station coffee shop in Liverpool in three weeks at 3:30pm .... hopefully! From here we fly to Barcelona for their Mardi Gras ('Carnaval') (most intriguing is the Debauchery parade ... on Sunday!), and where we have an apartment in the Gothic quarter (Andy relives his youth ... or not!). Then back to the UK for a few days ....
Stay tuned as always ...
Isn't it grand!
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"We are afraid of loosing what we have, whether it is our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand" (Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist)
Hope the flight was great! Love to mum & dad
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