Cheers from London!

Greetings from the SAS Radisson Hotel in London Stansted-

We're about 45 miles outside of London proper, on our last night in Europe. We flew in from Pisa this afternoon, and just had dinner at the hotel, about a 2 minute walk from the airport, where we fly out of tomorrow morning on Maxjet.

So since my last entry, we continued our journey from down south in Puglia after visiting my old stomping grounds. We then drove up to the Amalfi Coast, and spent two nights there, overlooking the beautiful Bay of Naples. As I think I already covered that, I'll move on... After we left Positano and the Amalfi Coast, we went on to Pompei to see what had been uncovered from the 97 AD eruption of Mount Visuvius. Hasn't changed much since Lisa and I saw it 20 something years ago. But then again, I imagine 20 plus years isn't much after nearly 1800 years... Anyway, the Naples traffic was just as bad as I remembered; probably the worst in Italy. Veronica got a great clip out the windshield as we were driving on the video camera which we'll eventually get posted.

We then drove back to Ugo & Barbara's vineyard/farm. Had a wonderful dinner with them there on our last night, and then got up in the morning and headed to the U.S Army base Camp Darby near Pisa/Livorno. It was nice to have a bit of America after 5 weeks... Did a day trip to 5 Terre, north of the base, and finally saw the famous leaning tower of Pisa, etc. Flew out this morning and now we're laying in bed with a real down comforter, etc. Have to admit, it is nice to have some of the finer things in life again!!!

Anyway, we'll update the website when we get back with the photos from down south, and everything else. Must confess, depspite the 6-pack of Coors Light I bought on base the other night, I'm loooking forward to a schooner of Coors from the Richmond at home, as well as our bed!!!