France and England for Celebrations

We leave tomorrow for three weeks of celebrations. For the first few days, we'll be celebrating our friend Peter's 70th aboard La Belle Epoque, a canal barge on the Canal du Bourgogne. Then we spend a weekend celebrating the marriage of our friend Joanna in Bristol in southwest England. A few days by the sea in Cornwall, one of the few English counties we have never visited, will lead to a week in and around London seeing family, condolences on the loss of a dear cousin, Alice, theater and then back to Paris to celebrate John's birthday. We look forward to an enjoyable three weeks before returning to Washington in the glories of Fall in mid-October.