hey daddy-kinz see you tonight!!!!!but i still miss you!!!!!!!!!!From:DEeDEe

yay

yay daddy is coming home!

Stinky cheese for breakfast

At the Maple Leaf lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport.

Coeur de Lion
The Heart of the Lion.

It smells like a mangey old circus lion too!

Gare du Nord

I am on my way home!!
See you all soon!

Gingerbread yummies

Bethan and Maddie's gingerbread house - what a team effort!

Christmas Songbird

Well it was a packed house tonight for the Sunningdale Christmas Concert which was very entertaining with the enormous primary choir, the junior choir and the Sunningdale school band (who knew??) all making very merry. But the brightest songbird was Dee Dee!

yo daddy-kinz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I miss you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But I will see you tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!tonights my school concert!!!!! FROM:DEEDEE buy buy!!!!!!!

YOUR"French"

Okay daddy, this is a translation of what you wrote about the coffee:Yes but are
made the bit of espresso for me. I what don't have the milk. Juice sugar!So hah! Ton francais fait mal a mes oreilles!
Anyways guess what. I think I either broke or sprained my finger as you can see in this picture. Boo Hoo!
Love Betty <3XOXOXOXO

Welcome to Paris!

It is good to be back.
It is also good to be at the end of this trip.
Home tomorrow!

L'espresso dans le TGV

Oui mais sont fait le coupe du espresso pour moi. Je que ne pas le lait. Jus sucre!

Pretty goot french huh!

Maillou on the TGV!

Bonjour!
We are on the train en route to Paris.

Bon Matins!
(That's french for Good Morning, for those keeping score at home).

Yours truly,
Pierre.

miss ya daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi daddy-kinz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I miss u a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Wutcha doing????????????????From:DEeDEe:)(:

MENINGITIS C

hiya dad,
i Had to get my meningitis c shot today it hurts so much i can hardly move my arm

Hi Daddyo!

yo daddy-o!!!!!!!!!!I miss you a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!From:DEEDEE

Castel Sant Angelo

Daddy! About the castle Sant Angelo, in my book, Traitors Gate, It has a chapter on the castle Sant Angelo! Isn't that cool?!
Miss you daddy
-Betty XOXOXOXO

The End is in Sight

Well, I am in my final country. Just two days of work ahead, then home.
Here is a map of my travels.

Lyon est la ville de guignol

Lyon est la ville de guignol (et non ce n’est pas Paris qui a inventé Guignol, c’est Laurent Mourguet, un ouvrier de la soie devenu chirurgien dentiste ou plutôt arracheur de dents, qui en 1808 a créé le théâtre de Guignol pour attirer et dérider ses clients). Guignol, jeune ouvrier de la soie est joyeux et espiègle. Il n'écoute pas toujours les bons conseils de son épouse Madellon mais il protège les petits gens du peuple et ridiculise la haute société lyonnaise.

News flash: Je parlons Francais!!!!!

Yes that's right! I am speaking French!

I spoke French all day today. (See my earlier post about antiperspirant).

From the moment I crossed into French airspace I swore an oath that I would only parlons francais and I have to say it is going very well. I received exactly what I ordered for dinner in the brasserie and in fact all the staff have responded to me en francais as well. Of course I have no idea what they are saying but I just respond with "Ah, mais oui! Mais oui" and they eat it up! I am a cosmopolitan charlatan! And I LOVE IT!!!!

Oh Baby!!!

Mmmmmmmmm!

Artfully poured!

So excited!

Duvel blonde
Fois gras de canard
Brandade de Morue
Et une verre du Pouilly Venzelles.

C'est tres bien!

The most inviting brasserie in Lyon

Doesn't it look like a dream?

More light theatre

There is a festival in Lyon tonight. A sort of play with images projected on a building and music in the square. Its quite fun!

Light theatre

Guignol!

Flying fish?

Pedestrian area in Lyon

Antiperspirant in France

For future reference the international expression for "is this antiperspirant" in France is to put the product that you think might be correct on the counter, lift one arm, wave your other hand under your arm pit, say "C'est?" while whistling three times.

Worked for me!

Welcome to France?

I have to go. But where exactly does one sit??????

Approaching Lyon

John McGarr

Ciao Roma! Ciao Italia!

Rome airport is right on the ocean. You take off straight over the water.



Next stop, Lyon France.

Modern mosaics

This is an installation at Rome airport for a company that produces mosaics. They have been in business since 1987.



Interesting treatment for a bathroom!

Crossed over the Alps

Mont Blanc in the distance.

hi!!!

hey daddy-kinz!!!!!!!!!!i miss u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!from maddie:);

Strange looking water fountains they have here

Now THAT'S a proper coffee

A lovely espresso served with...are you ready for this....2 chocolate baby truffles, an elongated lady finger (maybe a "church-lady" finger?) and a GIANT amaretti!

I am going into diabetic shock just thinking about it.

OK I really am suffering over here, despite how it looks.

My cheese plate.
Is somebody going to help me eat this?

Streets still full!

One more!

From the edge of the roof of the main church. This overlooks the square. Look back at the pic from the front of the church and you will see these statues looking down on the peoples!

On my way down

I was just on the level below that gold ball on the top!

Last one from the top

Ciao!

Where the Papa lives

Rome from the top #2

St Peters Square from the top

Gardens behind the Papal residence

Rome from the top #1

Another view from the dome - 3/4 up

Walls are curving as we approach the top of the staircase

Monti district

Where I ate dinner

Rome from the climb to the cupola

Mosaic up close

Little cubes

Mosaic inside the dome

Roof of the dome

Looking down from inside the dome

From the roof of the main church

Into the cupola next

The Dome on top of St Peter's

I have climbed 540 steps and am about to go inside to take some snaps of Rome from the very top.

The Alter

Inside St Peters

The house that Michaelangelo built

Apparently part of the reason the Colloseum is in such ruins is that it was looted of its marble to build St Peter's. The Pope didn't care about the Colloseum - it was pagan Roman, not Christian. Christians were killed by the pagan Romans until Constantine became a Catholic around 300 AD.

San Pietro from Castel SantAngelo

See the big house off in the distance?
That is how far a fat pope can sprint when he needs to!

Castle SantAngelo

There is an underground passage from the Vatican to here for the popes to escape when Vatican City was under attack.