Globetrotting

We went along to the golf club & travelled the world.

We were intending to go along to the village pub but discovered the roads were still closed after Wednesday night’s storms. Heaven knows what happened there. No-one we’ve asked has any idea.

So we decided to go along to the golf club. There we discovered Eric & Doreen. They were chatting to Brian, someone we didn’t know. They were pleased to see us & eager for us to join them which we duly did.

During the course of our conversation we travelled the world. Reminiscences abounded.

Eric & Doreen are enthusiastic cruisers. In the 70s they had lived in Nigeria. While there they had visited other parts of Africa including Mombasa in Kenya, a city they recalled reminiscing about with Mrs B, our friend the retired headmistress. Later we discovered they had gone on to live in Maastricht in the Netherlands. They’ve holidayed in Canada & USA. Brian, too, had worked in the Netherlands, as well as in Ireland. I reminisced about Norway, a place I visited when my father was working there. We also remembered French, Dutch, Italian & Canadian holidays.

We had all found the local people, wherever they were, welcoming & generous. I can’t help concluding the reception you get is largely the result of the attitude you take with you. The one family I know who were robbed on holiday in France, were also the one family I know who went suspicious of the French. They’d only gone to France as the then young children wanted to visit EuroDisney.

We came back home after our brief holiday globetrotting to our very English Little Bacon Flans, suitably refreshed from our journey.