Bill and I attending the Papal Mass last year at St Peter’s. Here is a quick update on tomorrow. After doing one leg of our pilgrimage tour this morning, it was time to head to St Peter’s. The media were everywhere. We did our Scavi tour (yes… the tour is so good we did it…
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Wednesday has taken a different turn…
On Wednesday, we had planned to attend the Papal Audience at St Peter’s and then, that evening, we had been granted tickets to Santa Sabina for the Papal Ash Wednesday Mass. We felt so blessed for this opportunity – Santa Sabina is a small church and to get the chance to begin Lent with our…
The not too long flight home…
Ahhh the last post about Europe! It is strange when you are on holiday. You don’t want it to end and then, when it does you just want to get home RIGHT NOW. We got to Heathrow early enough so we could have a relaxing time in the Lounge and do some last minute shopping…
European Vacation – the last day
Our last day in London was another busy one. We got to Kensington Palace before it even opened. We were about third in line! Even though they aren’t even living there yet, I just wanted to say “Yoohoo.. Wills? Kate? We are hereeee!” Hyde Park was a flurry of activity – Getting to Kensington Palace…
Royal Windsor Horse Show and Jubilee Pageant
On Friday, we had another Royal event. I really was loving all of this pageantry!! This time we were heading up to Windsor to attend the Queen’s Jubilee Pageant. It was also at the same time as the Royal Windsor Horse show. So we tied that all together with a visit to Windsor Castle. We…
A restful day in London
On Thursday in London, we had a bit of a sleep in and a bit more of a ‘vacation’ day. This sleep in was one of the few we managed to get on our ‘holiday’ – oops! We were going over to visit our colleagues at the Cadwalader London office. It was SO great to…
We saw the Queen and stepped back in time
We had grand plans for our first full day in London. Checking out the markets and lots of shopping. This was all thrown to the wind when I checked Twitter and found out that the Queen would be opening Parliament that day and there would be a full procession down the Mall to Westminster. I…
Au Revoir France and ‘Allo England… and the Tower of London!
Leaving Paris was a blast as we took the Eurostar. I thought the train from Rome to Venice was fast but this was just off the charts. My ears popped and the way the train swayed when we went around any kind of bend was actually kind of worrying. To travel at those kinds of…
Normandy Battlefields Day Trip
For our last day in France we ventured out early to the Normandy battlefields. This involved an alarm at 5am, cab at 6am and train at 7am! Our B&B owner left us a breakfast to go in the fridge so we were able to make our way to the train without worry. I love regional…
Sunday in Paris
So, let’s get back to our European vacation. I know.. this is turning into the most drawn out travel blog of all time! When we left off, we had been to Rome, Venice and had arrived in Paris. We had a busy first day and got to see history in the making with the French…