Good Morning,
We spent a couple of days in Bristol, England with Louise and Alaistair. We stayed just around the corner from where Louise lives in their friends "flat". Louise and Alaistair fixed a nice dinner and breakfast for us. The streets where they live are very narrow and have cars parked on both sides of the street so driving down between the cars was very interesting. When we arrived, it was raining but Alaistair had requested that we bring the sun and so we did! The next couple days we had sun!!
We all went to the Tyntesfield Castle in Bristol and spent the day walking around the beautiful flower gardens. The castle is a spectacular Victorian Gothi Revival house built on an extravagant estate with many gardens and a wonderful view. We had a nice lunch in a building that used to be the barn so ate in an area that used to be a "pig pen". Alaistair gave us a guided walking tour of downtown Bristol. Tom was able to have a ride in Alaistair's 1930 Austin. Alaistair's dad had purchased the car new in 1930! Tom had been waiting to get a ride for a few years ever since Alaistair had told him about the car!! We left Bristol on the 3 May and drove to Dover, England to spend the night before we were to take the ferry to Europe. We had lunch on the pier overlooking the English Channel and with the Cliffs of Dover just behind us. The next morning we turned in our rental car and made our way to the Ferry. We had downsized our luggage and left some with Louise in Bristol as we were going to pick up another car in Calais, France. It took us 1.5 hours on the P&O Ferry to get to Calais, France. We picked up our rental car and were off to Spangdalem Air Force Base. The weather was sunny and warm and the country side was small rolling hills and green with many fields of Yellow Flowers (canola fields). We arrived in Spangdalem about 5 hours later and checked into billeting and then had a nice dinner in a restaurant in Gondorf. We used to take the girls there when we were stationed in Bitburg for picnics as they had a nice animal park. The next day we walked around Birburg and had a nice lunch. We also drove around Bitburg Air Force base where we used to live and talked about our memories!! We remembered the time we spent in Bitburg with Peggy and Larry in the area 5 years ago. The years do go buy quickly.
Today we are in Ramstein Air Force Base. We arrive yesterday and met with John, Penny and Alysia who are living here now. We have known Penny since 1980 when stationed with her parents in Cheyenne, Wyoming. John had proposed to Penny in our backyard in Hawaii! They will soon be married 30 years! It was so nice to spend the day with all of them and catch up on the past years! We had lunch at a castle on top of the mountain in Landsthul with a great view.
We are staying at TLF on base here in Ramstein Air Force Base.
Tomorrow we will head to Prague...we think. We are discussing our route this afternoon.
~"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring"~ Anonymous ~
We send our love and our thoughts to you and are keeping all in prayer.
Please keep us in your prayer for safe travels.
God Bless,
Tom and Maryann
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