Sparky the Cat likes all this computer activity, because it means she can sprawl across my lap while I reach over & around her. (No wonder I get mysterious shoulder twinges from time to time!)
This morning Europe and heat waves seem far away, as it's currently 51 F and cloudy skies here in Seattle. Later the overcast should burn off, but it won't get really hot. I am home just in time for local strawberries, which ripened very late this year because of our unusually cold, wet, dreary spring.
Finishing the trip in Holland made a circle of the Danube trip. Before joining the tour in Prague, Nancy and I spent four days with friends of hers who live in Zalk (a very small place between Hattem and Zwolle, northeast of Amsterdam.) Because they willingly chauffered us elsewhere, first to Elburg, then to Friesland, we were also able to visit other friends, and to visit the boat Nancy still owns. (Boat is for sale - check out this site in case you are in the market for a really nice classic 50-foot motor yacht.)
Staying at this lovely house in the country was a wonderful way to get over jet lag and transition into Europe. We helped celebrate a couple of birthdays, and each of us had a hair-raising motorcycle ride, on the back of our host's huge Gold Wing. (Here's Nancy, in full biker babe turnout.)
Before we left Amsterdam, Nancy called the Zalk friends, and was horrified to learn they were just beginning to recover from a very serious automobile accident, suffered about a week and a half ago. (Their car was hit from behind, and rolled into a ditch. "The car was so badly damaged that you could not even tell it was a Volvo," Joost told us.) Miraculously, their injuries were not catastrophic.
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