Tag: Italy

A nice relaxing Sunday in London.  Started with Matins at St. Pauls, and then took a walk around Bankside (or the south end of the Thames, aka Shakespeare’s neighborhood) the “city,” (aka the financial, law, and news districts), and the Westminster area around the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.  Not much adventure today, but it was great to take a relaxing day to absorb the great feeling of London.  We’re off to Yo! Sushi.

We’re lucky to be here tonight. A 2-hour delay in Chicago because of mechanical trouble caused us to miss our connecting flight in Montreal. A number of other people were in the same predicament, so we were lucky to squeeze on to the last flight to England that night (after a good run around the whole airport, or as the check-in guy said “Better run, eh?”). Otherwise, it would have been a night in Montreal, only to arrive for another night in London.

Not too jet lagged, but still took it easy today: British Library and a bit of shopping. We’ll see if we can stay up long enough to see the Americans loose at football.

My wife and I leaving tomorrow for London, England, and a tour of Milan, Florence, and Rome, Italy. If the Internet connections are good (go wireless!), we’re hoping to blog about the trip, as well as post images to the gallery.

I haven’t had quite as much time to update the blog as I would like, but have a number of story ideas that I’ve been working on which hopefully can be completed when we return.

Cheers,
-john