As an accompaniment to this blog please click on link as you begin reading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haUl6ejC8DQ "We're the Red and Blue Army!" Once we arrived in London one of the top items for us to do was to go to a football match. When asking my good friend Bill to inquire to his London-based contacts about things to do, a reply too good to be true came back. "If you want fantastic football entertainment at an unbeatable price, there's only o...

There are 26 European countries that are party to the Schengen Agreement, which eliminates all internal border controls between them. Once you enter one Schengen country you may travel continuously for up to 90 days within the member countries. Travelers for business or tourism are permitted to stay in the Schengen area for 90 days within a six month period. On the weeks and days leading up to the departure on our journey we did a trem...

We arrived safe and sound in London last night. We have a nice apartment in Canary Wharf for the month. The area outside of our windows is full of holiday lights. We explored the area a bit today and did a little grocery shopping. While at the market there was a young guy giving out samples of...vodka! I cracked up and told him how funny I thought that was. He replied, "Why is it funny? It's just a sample. You won't get pissed." We just loved his UK response and ...