Winter has past, and a busy travel season is about to begin. Time to get the suitcases down from the garage and start trying to remember what all we need to bring on the first trip. We leave this Wednesday for London Heathrow via a plane change in Boston. The blog will probably kick off on Saturday from our first stop: a week in Rowena Cottage at Anvil Point Lighthouse just outside of Swanage in Dorset. It looks delightful. Now if only the reality matches up with the internet expectations!
We are buying a car again. This time we will be getting a Peugeot 3008 Grip which hopefully will be awaiting us with the automatic transmission that was ordered. You’ll remember last year our Renault had a manual transmission, not something I wanted to deal with while driving on the wrong (left) side of the road. After an anxious hour or two, everything worked out and we enjoyed a very nice Volvo on the trip. I didn’t switch to Peugeot because of that; rather, Peugeot had adjusted their US$ rates to properly reflect the new exchange rate realities whereas Renault had not. The agents from whom we pick up the car at Heathrow are the same guys we dealt with in previous years – good guys, a father and son team.
We’ll be back at you from Swanage next Saturday! Future trips will include Saratoga Horse Racing in Jul/Aug (Joe only); Toronto to Vancouver by 4-day train followed by eight days at Depoe Bay, Oregon in September; Elaine’s exciting adventure to Ireland with sister Caroline at end of September; Thanksgiving with family in Las Cruces, NM; and, finally, a surprise Christmas and New Years adventure in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland – our European home away from home.
Sounds great, can’t wait to live the month with you through your always fabulous pictures, bon voyage!!!!