First week in England

Although it was a couple of month's back, I feel I need to write a bit more about our trip to England with a few photographs. We had a wonderful vacation, travelling round seeing as many people as possible and many thanks to all those who gave us a bed, cooked meals for us, chauffered us round etc.

We had our first day in High Wycombe with Jacqui and Duncan et al, who kindly met us at the airport and gave us a bed for the night. Arriving at 10am which was 3am for us, we've now established that the best cure for jet lag is to spend the day with four under ten-year olds as they will keep you awake until late in the day. You then go to sleep and wake up in English time.

From there we spent the week in Carleton Rode with Richard's parents and caught up with most of our friends in Naarch. I spent an afternoon at good old Norfolk County Council catching up with ex-colleagues and telling them how great it is in Canada (before I knew about the Drayton Valley Disaster, ironically). I also spent a day with Ann - a visit to the newly created Cromer Zoo and then fish and chips from Mary Jane's on Cromer Pier. And it didn't rain. Perfect. Richard and I even managed a day out on our own, with no socializing. We went to Wells and then worked our way round the coast to west Norfolk and wandered round Sandringham gardens as we've never been there before.







Cromer and Ann. Note no rain

Sandring-ham. Rain.

The weekend was then spent in Suffolk for Richard's Dad's 60th birthday. Alan thought he was going away for a romantic weekend with Sue. Little did he know that the whole family was coming along too. Still, he didn't seem too disappointed. Well done to Jacqui and Elaine for all their hard work organising it, keeping it a surprise, and even tracing a couple of Alan's old school friends to join him for dinner on the Saturday night.

The birthday boy holding court to his entourage at lunch on Saturday






The cake, made by Julie, of Alan's market stall.