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I don't think it has struck home to me yet, but my hands are still shaking and my knees are knocking. Why? you may ask. Fate has banged on my door and the impact it has made on me is still being taken in. At around 2 a.m. this morning I became a great grandfather. Me! a great grandfather. The...

Our first excursion in Vienna was similar to one we had done before, called Panoramic Vienna, but there are always differences and this one turned out to have quite a number of differences. We took a different route to start so we experienced walking past palaces and churches that we hadn’t even...

Thank you, Keesha, reading your post has made me realise the strongpoints of my relationship with Jackie. Your beautifully expressed wishes are precious to us. We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. And may all your dreams come true. Regards. Bill

I'm not sure I can give you a straight answer on this, Keesha, as Jackie and I more or less made it up as we went along. To start I married someone I was very much in love with. So did Jackie. Yes, I still love her and she tells me and shows me that she loves me. That's a good start. When we...

There will now be a short intermission as Jackie and I are off to Paris to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary. We take the TGV tomorrow morning and will be gone for a week. I've been a bit dilatory in finishing the Budapest to Amsterdam cruise and I promise I'll finish it and write up the...

It was up for an early start so it was a quick shower, breakfast, checkout and then wait a few minutes for our cab. He turned up bright and cheerful, loaded our bags and drove us to Terminal 3. We felt that our gremlins had been left behind in Luxembourg. Then we got to the KLM check in desk...

Yes, the lockdown and its subsequent variations have been a tough time for people with itchy feet. Like me. And Jacky. From February 2020 until the present we have undertaken one journey, and that was to visit our son and daughter-in-law in western France for a week. We had booked a cruise with...

France and Luxembourg have good mutual recognition of each other's Covid treatments and precautions so when we had a free period in our weekly schedules (Jackie recently dislocated her ring finger when she fell on our front steps and is now undergoing physiotherapy) we thought we would drive...

So, by the time we finished our drinks and our chats with the staff, we were able to check in, so after reserving a table for dinner we made our way back to Reception where our keys awaited us and a young man stood by to guide us to our room. I should explain that the hotel was not laid out in...

Jackie tripped on the steps a couple of weeks ago and dislocated a finger. She was taken to hospital in an ambulance, was x-rayed after an examination was treated and set up with a course of physiotherapy which she is still undergoing. So now, after some high drama and a start to Jackie’s...

Great cheering from the Bill and Jackie household. For the first time since the Coronavid outbreak we were able to visit our son in France, where he has created his own business, in partnership with his wife, on the Ile d’Oléron. This island is France’s second largest island after Corsica and...

Jackie and I have now both had our Covid vaccinations, the first in March and the second 4 weeks later. Neither of us had any after effects and we are happy that we had both shots without any side effects at all. Our only problem is that restaurants, bars and cafés in Luxembourg are only allowed...

I've got my appointment for the first shot on Thursday, 4th at 13.20 CET (12.20 BMT). It was all done via the computer. I received a letter from the Luxembourg government giving me a website to make an appointment. On the website I was given a choice of 4 vaccination points and a calendar of...

The news on the car front is all good. Mercedes kept my car from Monday until Wednesday midday and when they called me to tell me it was ready they also informed me that they had replaced the entire ignition system with completely new parts, they had taken the car out for a thorough testing and...

Well, it hasn’t exactly been a swinging start to the new year anywhere, has it? In Luxembourg all restaurants were closed, as were shops, bars and cafés. For us, our nearest UK family is in Whitstable, Kent, so that was a no-no as it’s a Covid hotspot. Our oldest son is in Western France with...