Warm as Pie?

The regular travel section today's Sunday paper - Sydney's Sun-Herald - features a wonderful tourist destination in the United States ... [drum roll] ... Baltimore! A two page spread describes the city as "warm as pie", a "real" city, a "happy fusion" of the urbane north and hospitable south, infused with Baltimorean "sincerity", a "fringe festival" (in relation to nearby Washington DC), and so on.

It makes Baltimore sound like a fun destination, which is great because we're going to spend two weeks or so there in June when we visit Emily and Greg who are living near the inner harbour "where tourists congregate". We can't wait to get there.

I'm sending Emily the article for expert comment on its accuracy, and hope it's not going to disappoint us.

AS

Feeling Groovy

Well, I'm still deluged by expressions of concern and sympathy coming in from all over the world. Only one of them had me dead!

I am steadily feeling stronger and should be able to travel to Sydney at the week-end the slow way. We're taking the train at Dot's insistence and are travelling first class, which is quite cheap with our 'seniors' discount. In fact, we get on free trip anywhere in NSW every year by being seniors, but we're holding that in reserve.

Meanwhile, my health continues to improve and I've gone back to playing bridge - successfully.

We wish readers a happy Christmas.

AS

Flickr First post

I've just posted to http://www.flickr.com/search/people/?q=Wayward+Rambler&m=names some 20 digital photos of New Zealand. Have a look if you wish at some of the sights we saw over a 2 week period. I'm also putting together a video of the trip.

AS