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Christmas
Letter 2003/2004
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Christmas
in
Europe
We spent the days leading up to last Christmas
visiting Naomi and Ally and our granddaughter Arera in Milan then flew
RyanAir from Milan to Perpignan via Wiesbaden in Germany for a few days
with our amusing and very hospitable friends before going on to visit our
flat in Argeles sur Mer. Having bought a small flat in the South of
France, we have to go there, whatever the weather. However, we were
fortunate in that respect, and we able to eat our Christmas lunch in the
sunshine on the balcony. Anna arrived a few days later, and we spent the
reveillon, or New Year’s Eve, at a big party in a local restaurant
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The
response to last year’s electronic Christmas letter was far more
favourable than I had expected, with two people actually saying they liked
the new format, and another two people wanting the printed form as they
didn’t have access to the internet. Four positive responses out of 130
isn’t bad. So this year we have a web page again.

Here's
a picture of the pool visitors to our flat can use.
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As usual,
travel has been a big feature of our lives this year. Linda has been able
to travel more, because she works only two days a week, leaving Thursday
to Monday free for quick trips to Italy – and thanks to RyanAir, those
trips are often cheaper than the rail fare to Sheffield, where Anna is
doing her PhD. I have lost count of how many times Linda has been to
Milan; once she went to look after Naomi who was feeling ill, and another
time she just went to babysit, so mum and dad could get a bit of peace.
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Arera and
her grandparents on the mountain in Italy that's named after her. |
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Summer
in
North America
Our main
travel this year was to
Canada, to visit friends whom we met in
Barbados
when Naomi was only 3 or 4 years old, and whom we had lost touch with
within the last ten years, but had rediscovered thanks to the Internet. We
hadn’t seen these friends for a very long time, so instead of
sightseeing in
Toronto
we tended to sit at home with them and chat, catching up on nearly 20
years of news.
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