London

May 2019…

For Hector’s birthday this year, we decided to return to London. We used to make it a point to go at least once a year because it’s Hector’s favorite city. Plus, it was an easy two or three days on the way somewhere else. It just got so expensive, our ragged American dollars go so much further just about anywhere else, but we decided to go reconnect with my nephew Pollard, wife Mush, kids Elu and Takoda (Pollard is a musician.)

Pollard and fam are just delightful, the kids are adorable, even though everyone says that. But really, yours aren’t and mine are.

Also, our passport posse Tere and Martin wanted to meet up there so we got a lot of partying under our belts. With Tere and Martin we walked all over, they are always very adventurous so we saw a lot of areas we had not seen before. Went to see a production of The Starry Messenger with Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern bored to death in it, stayed at the Marriott County Hall (5 nights 200k points), just across the Thames from Parliament. Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery, Hampton Court, Tower of London, Highgate Cemetery, Epping Forest, tra la.

The Passport Posse at London’s self-proclaimed oldest pub, Ye Olde Mitre