10/9/22 Richmond

          This was written on 10/25 as already my memory of events are starting to fade. As always I start to do the blog while there ,but then the demands of the trip start taking over and at night I am too tired to write or dictate. It was another great trip and as always I am happy to be traveling. Wendy had more misgiving than I did. It was the longest trip the two of us have taken overseas in a long time. We spend 16 full days over there 
             We started the day with the buffet breakfast at the Richmond Hill hotel. I was very happy with the choice of the hotel. The bed was very comfortable. The room gave us just enough room to spread out and we had a view of the Thames. We walked out of the hotel to the viewing spot which is where Turner painted his famous picture of the Thames. It was wonderful. We took several pictures. We then went to Syon house. It was a very good and interesting house and had  an excellent audio guide We walked around the house and enjoyed it thoroughly
           . We then went to Chiswick house which was also very enjoyable. We walked around the grounds. We had a sandwich at the cafe. We drove around and Wendy appreciated seeing the way people live which is why we had picked Richmond to begin with. Richmond is  very affluent and scenic and has great stores.. We then went back to the hotel and I had my usual nap. For dinner we walk down to  Bills Richmond and had  an okay dinner. We then walked back up the hill. We got our exercise and enjoyed walking down to Richmond and back. The street was fun as well as the view. We saw the gardens as we walk down.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

10/11/23

          We woke up and once again had a very nice buffet breakfast at the hotel. We then checked out of the hotel and drove on the London beltway to Golder's Green. We drove down the street checking out the kosher section of London ,getting a brief glimpse of paths not taken and where Wendy's family may have ended up. However they probably would not be Orthodox, so they may not be correct.            We continue to drive down to Hempstead and I found a parking lot by the Heath. We had gotten used to pay and display but this one was different and you had to do it through the phone and  it took us about a half hour to 45 minutes to figure out how to charge to the parking lot We finally  figured it out and started walking around Hempstead. It was a fun neat little town. We walked around and saw all the old houses. I followed a path more or less through a good part of the town. We ate lunch at an outdoor cafe. We walked down  to Hampstead square to St Mary's Catholic Church a
Read more

camp tac 2

I am writing a bit out of sequence. I went to TAC  at the end of my sophomore year of high school. I believe the camp experiences very much changed me, whether for the good or bad would depend on how one views it. I changed a lot there and what I loved is it allowed me to change. I think prior to that I was very introverted and very unsure of myself. I became much more confident and perhaps much more egotistical. I became much closer with sorge  and osstroff less friendly with kaminski Paul Fisher. I always think of those are some of my better summers and loved my summers at camp. That  and my junior year abroad were to some of my favorite memories. Reading about it brings back very good memories. I wasn't writing that extensively and it was mostly just a paragraph per day. Monday July 1st 1968 -got home 1:00 a.m. so written at 2:00 a.m. decided to tell arrangements for July leaving for camp. So unable to keep up diary. Given synopsis when got back so tell  Then in different handwr
Read more

richmond

          Got up and had the breakfast buffet which was pretty good. It was  very nice buffet with lots of croissants  as well as breakfast yogurt and a variety of other stuff One of the better breakfast buffets.                          Didn't get going to about11:00. We were going to go on drive up and down the Thames. We had difficult with directions. The  traffic was terrible as it was backed up over 25 miles. I made the wrong turn and went down the highway to the southwest rather than to the west. It turned out to be okay because we then cut through backcountry which was relatively nice. A few times I would make a mistake and have to turn around which was a pain in the ass. We were trying to get to pick up the path around Eaton but it'll was getting more and more difficult, and it was hard for the GPS as it was a bunch of change  and it was having difficulty navigating.         So we then cut across country to go to pangbourne which was a nice little town. We then went to
Read more