4/29 Friends arrive!

We're so happy to have friends arrive.  Ginger and Bill got here around 10AM and we had a big english breakfast with english bacon (a lot different then ours and I like it so much better), eggs, mushrooms and toast and honey.  Then it was time for a long walk along the Thames to give them some exercise and ended up at a historic pub called The Dove, registered by Guiness World Records as the smallest pub in the country.  However, after you go through the bar area which only has 4 stools and is tiny, you go into other rooms and out on to a deck overlooking the Thames.  With the walk back, we had covered 3.5 miles and they were ready for a nap!  John left after we got home to explore one of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries (you can actually google that!).  I had a leisurely afternoon reading a wonderful book Searching for Tilley while Bill and Ginger slept.  Then out to dinner and now we are watching the political debate (the election is next week and they only campaign for four weeks! Can you imagine?) and they sound just like the politicians back home with the same ideas and problems.

Tomorrow we leave for Oxford to see the May Day celebration on Saturday.  Our first scheduled event is at 5AM Saturday morning to see a 300 year old tradition of a boys choir singing on top of a church!  Then a Maypole somewhere I hope.  We are staying at a bed and breakfast that Bill found so I can't tell you much about it and I have no idea if I will have internet connection to continue to communicate with you.  So, cheerio for now!