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Well Dean Martin did this, a song from the 50's.
But I just did the bucket list trip, London, England (26C or 76F) 4 days, Scotland West Coast 21C or 71F, 5 days, Edinburgh 2 days 22C 2 days, Amsterdam 3 days, 22C or 73F, Berlin 1 day, 18C or 67F, Vienna 21C or 70, 3 days, Salzburg, 23C, 72F, 3 days, Zurich/Strousburg/NE France, 23C 72F, Paris 25C, 76F, 4 days.
Amazing.
The papers in England said, normal weather for Easter, horizontal sleet and rain. Wrong it was hot. We got sunburns.
We were moving so fast on Rail passes and special tickets no time to stop and smell the roses.
Great Fun.
We had, on both accounts, the best times of our lives.
I could never as for better weather, or a better time.
I used my long lost German, Scots (not so long lost), by French (did well at that) and my deaf English.
So many people look odd at me when I said, Ich sprekin Deutche ou Je parle francais, mais je suis sourde mais ma femme ne parle qu'anglais....
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We got by,
And I Wish the bride did not have to go back to work.
Oh well we still do the music thing.
Stay posted.
A few clouds one a.m. in Berlin, the rest of the time, blue skyies, NO clouds. Amazing.
John Conley
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Glad you had a great time John........good to hear from you.
Rob
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I used a phrase here a few times. Ethocentric. As usual I bought newspapers and read them. Almost no North American news. Zero Canuck. About 1/2 of 1% American. We call it Yank. No baseball, no basketball, no 'football'. In the sports 12 pages of it. 10 of 'football'/soccer. 1/2 of tennis/rugby. 1/2 of why do badminton players have to wear skirts. 1/4 of racing.
I loved the food, the wine, the beer and the music. The music and the beer. The beer, the people, and the joie de vivre.
Almost losing your life a few times in the last 10 months changes your point of view. No country music either.
Weird or what.
On the other hand I'm on the 6th case of aspiration pnumonia in the last 7 months, and it's wearing thin. I don't like most of the solutions, but 5 more docs visits in the next few weeks will sort things out I hope.
The wife and I still disagree on directions. I was 99 percent right but that does not make me right. LOL. I still get 'how do you do that'. But it does not make me right.!!
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Glad you enjoyed the holiday John, did you come up to the north of Scotland at all ?
Maybe you got the best of the weather, it's bleeding well perishing cold here again.
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Hey Graham, well we had sort of a slap and dash at it.
We had a nice 1st class train ticket from London to Edinburgh. A bit of a splurge that.
I should have had a driving lesson on a road wider than a cart track!
A few miles out of Oban the road had a bit that wasn't there when a lorry came around the corner and I got a tyre out of the road and popped a hole in the sidewall.
A nice chap stopped and helped me change to the temporary tyre and gave me directions to some back alley where I got a new one for 57 scottish pounds, and it took less than 10 minutes to get done. I was lucky in that respect, heck here it might have been a day or so to even 'get in'.
We had some problems with ferry schedules on Islay and a date with a plane ticket, spent 2 nights Islay, one on Skye, and one in Inverness. Strange thing to say, but the wife and I concur that the best lasagne we ever ate, (had a bit of that us), was in Inverness.
Anyway, drove down the track from Inverness to Edinburgh with some fine fiddle music of a Sunday afternoon on a fine day without cloud. I'll get around to putting together some of the video, I think you were playing accordion and Joe Gordon was on guitar with Sally singing, but I could be wrong again. (OK, but it was fun). We had a plane to catch to Amsterdam.
Scotland reminds me of norther Ontario, but with roads designed by a drunk guy on a meagre budget.
The tyre dealer did say they make a good living from bad roads.
We loved everywhere we went except Berlin, where at first we were to spend a day or so, but with a rail pass we just left for Vienna.
We never had one bad day of weather.
It's cooling down here too, and we are just getting tulips and lilacs out. Up north at the cabin the ice isn't totally out yet, so no blackflies yet.
If the wife ever retires we can take another trip and have a few visits. As it was we (I) lurched from place to place.
The docs are optimistic I'll lose the lurch so I don't look like I'm falling forward, and I'm starting to adapt to having 4 numb fingers and my playing is partly back, just don't ask for arpeggios.
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Welcome back to the forum, John.
You were missed.
--Mac
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You were missed.
--Mac
Ditto that, I was just about to ask of your whereabouts and if anyone had heard from you.
Welcome Home!
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John it was probably Scott Gordon ( Joe & Sallys' son ) that was playing.
Wish I'd known you were in Inverness, I could easily have met up for a coffee !
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Thanks for the welcome back.
I've had some serious side effects from the chemo that lead to taking a lot of meds I hate, and I'm either spaced right out or I have a serious edge which leads up to my being, as I heard from a countryman on the way back on the plane, to being a$$HOLEish. Good word.
I'm somewhat better, I can go out without grabbing my feet or legs or acting out. So.
Graham, we arrived late on Saturday, went out for supper at 8ish, back to the B&B after the hosts were abed, then off at 9 a.m. for Edinburgh. Lovely drive. We walked down a hill to the centre of town, round a kirk and there were loads of folk about.
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You`ve been to Vienna and did not contact me? Shame on you! I would have loved to meet you. You could have visited one of my concerts too. Life`s too short to miss out occasions like these. Bad boy, you make me a sad girl now.
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Edinburgh is always heaving John. I feel the Same Sandra all the way up to Inverness & I never knew tut tut tut tut 
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I think if we had a definite plan we might have looked some folk up. As it was there were 4 items planned. 1. Arrive in London. 21 Days until the return 2. Meet my daughter's future 'family' in Dover. 3. Train to Edinburgh 4. Plane from Paris to Toronto. That was it. Ferries from Islay to the mainland were dodgy, we had to leave a day early. Inverness was never discussed but happened, and we didn't have internet, nor phone. Vienna was a maybe but the Berliners were so rude to us (3 times) and I arrived by night train from Amsterdam so I just hopped on the next train, heck it might have been to Denmark, that's how loose the plan was. So we'd try and get on the net and find a hotel. Next time I take more time, but my wife is stuck with only 3 consecutive weeks off, and I have 53 weeks off each year.  I'm sure she's going to quit in the next 2 years. She discovered she liked spending all day with me, we've only usually had 2 weeks a year together, and then most of the time there were kids.
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Welcome back John.
I thought for sure while you were away, you'd get a "Guest Poster" to fill in for you, like on the Tonight Show.
Glad you're back.
Wayne,
(BTW, when you were in London, did you see my daughter? She's about 5'4" dark hair)
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John:
Sounds like you had a good trip.
Did you realize that you can get here from there (Ontario). We have a few roads, and most don't have a bit missing.
The ferries aren't dodgy either.
But what's to entice you out here except relatives?
G
PS - I still live in Victoria - be here until the end - no where else to go.
After reading about your chemo experience, I'm considering other options.
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Hey Glen. Yeah, I've been to BC about 6 times. Costs less to go to Europe unless you have 10 olives, 2 beers and a sliced tomato in Zurich for 40 bucks. Nuts.
Doc said you've got 6 weeks without treatment, and we can cure this. They never mentioned side effects.
On the plus side I went to rehearsal last night and they missed me and I joined 2 bands while I was away.
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