Author: Faye

Upon return from our engagement trip the ring was top priority for me.  Partly because we were soon headed back to Michigan for Alexa and Kevin’s wedding, but mostly because it’s a super fun thing to choose a beautiful ring.  David had a bit of a plan already:  he liked Jeff Sahadi jewelers right on…

Re-entry Even though the trip had been a tremendous break from our usual reality, I was looking forward to returning home.  We stopped by Tesco to pick up David’s favorite cookies and black currant juice, then we were back to the airport, ready for a long ride home.  I finished my book by Michael Pollan…

When hatching our evacuation plan we’d decided on getting a cab to take us to the bus depot where we’d continue on to Beauvais.  We’d learned that it was very important not to be late to the bus stop and a taxi ride seemed like the most civilized way to be punctual and stress free. …

Okay, Angelina was a definite and we made it!  Le chocolat Africain was just as I remembered it, the rest wasn’t so good.  David proposed that we split a complete brunch which seemed like an okay idea, but  we got there near closing time and they were running out of stuff so we didn’t have…

We had a list of musts: shoes and a little more shopping for Faye poking around jewelry stores for ring ideas visiting the tour eiffel and l’arc de triomphe making the quick rounds of la louvre le chocolat Africain at Angelina Perhaps having a list of musts is a bad place to start, but there…

Note:  sorry we don’t have more pictures from Paris, the trip sort of went in a different direction…. With a certain amount of resentment at the early travel time, we made it to the airport in time for our flight.  David began practicing a few key phrases in french and I was doing my best…

This was our last day in Yorkshire and we were a little sad about that because so far it was definitely our favorite part.  David had told me that we were returning to Ireland for the last leg of our journey.  At one point I asked if we could please just stay on in England,…

We woke up to a very tasty English breakfast prepared by our hostess, much better than our other hotel’s breakfast! This was our day to visit the town of Thirsk where James Herriot (Alf Wight in real life) lived and worked as a veterinary surgeon.  I was looking forward to this since I’ve loved hearing…

We had to take great care to pack our bags because Ryan air has strict weight requirements and we’d had enough with paying hidden fees.  When we dropped off the car David asked the attendant about the M50, he said yes indeed we’d be charged and that we could get the whole story from the…

Sleeping in seemed the best way to save money so that’s what we did.  Of course we had to eat at Lemon the next morning, but we planned to be in and out in a hurry so as to avoid lots of parking charges.  We happened upon a bit of luck though and managed to…

We made it into the city center with enough time to breakfast and wander before the free walking tour started at 11a. We found a really tasty crepe place called Lemon (I seem to remember our guide mentioning that Bono’s brother is the owner). David was in heaven, I was pretty happy too. The people…

We woke up pretty late and had full Irish breakfast at the hotel (not good enough to repeat).  We missed the cut off for the city tour that we wanted to take so headed for the countryside instead.  We had a lovely hike along part of the Wicklow Way, which we planned to repeat daily. …

We flew directly from San Francisco to Dublin.  We had a whole row of center isle seats to ourselves so we spread out and had some rest during the flight.  We arrived to very cold weather, picked up our car for hire and headed to the hotel.  Our goal was to stay up until nightfall…

Wednesday March 25 was a pretty peaceful morning for me.  David had told me our departure time.  I had a few things to do to get ready to go, but all in all my mind was pretty clear.  After all, my only job was to show up, David had told me that we were going…