Category: Holidays
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Sunday, 23 July at Freeman Art Centre Sunday was an open air concert at the Freeman Art Centre in Fenwick Island just down Rte 1. It is a large flat field with a stage, lights and video screen displays. It is also BYOC – Bring Your Own Chair. Dinner was tailgating in the car park…
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Week 2 at home – 17-23 July 2023
Relaxing at the beach Monday the 17th I practised my driving skills including going through the Baltimore Tunnel then an Interstate and finally Rte 1 South. And then we got off Rte 1 with it’s 6 lanes to drive through Dover and some little villages and much more scenic route. After arriving in Bethany West…
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A very Happy Birthday with my family – 15th July
74th birthday and grand start to my 75th year! So we spent the day around the dinner table each with a different stitching project during the day. Judith was stitching the binding on one of Sue’s quilts. Ev was stitching on the border of a single bed quilt for Sue’s beach house, and I was…
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Thursday & Friday
Thursday 13th July Friday 14th July We went to Lancaster PA to visit an old college friend and house mate from Kutztown College days (1968-1971), Beth Dunkelberger. She is a costume designer and has worked with several different theatre companies, films, and a puppet theatre in Lancaster. We had a relaxing day at Mike and…
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Wednesday in Washington DC – 12 July 2023
“You wanna walk!?!” We are getting used to American incredulity at our request for directions to walk to anywhere. So Susan loaned us her car and I drove us down to Glenmont Metro Station for a trip to National Museum of Native Americans. We got on the Metro at Glenmont Station and traveled to Judiciary…
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Monday 10th July 2023
A day with many ups and downs We said goodby to the Ramada Inn today and Marietta took us fto the Allentown Transit Center to catch the bus which substitutes for Amtrak to Philadelphia. It was a pleasant start to the day. The bus starts in Scranton and was half full when we got on.…
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Sunday 9th July 2023
A bit of my family history. We did not go walk about today. My blue inhaler fell out of my pocket in Marietta’s car and she offered to deliver it to the hotel. So we asked her to pick up Bobby, my brother, on the way over as Bobby was giving us a private tour…
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Saturday 8 July in Whitehall PA
I spent most of my morning sorting out mobile communication. I thought I had sorted Go Roaming with 3 at home before leaving, but it turns out their package allows me to phone and text to the UK but not the USA. So after breakfast our first stop was to walk up to Best Buy…
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Visiting home 2023
Finally got to come home to see family this year. The trip was originally planned for 2020 but sadly was cancelled by Covid pandemic and lockdowns. So being cautious about sharing air in a full airplane of people. So 7th July 2023 was our day to set-off to spend a month visiting family in Pennsylvania,…
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22 December – Haifa, Israel
So after a day at sea we docked at Haifa and had an early morning wake-up call as some excursions were leaving at 7.00am but everyone had to go through Israeli immigration. This was the first port requiring us to get visas/landing permits. Even people not planning to get ogg the ship had to go…
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