Back in the UK

I flew back to the UK for a week for Mom's funeral. It was a sad time (obviously) but also afforded the opportunity to catch up with my family as well as Sarah and Patrick who Amy and I knew from our time in Warsaw. The three of us did a London Walk exploring Brunel's London. The walk featured both a ferry and tube and train ride and told the remarkable history of the famous engineer who built a tunnel under the Thames among other incredible feats of engineering.

It was so lovely to catch up with Sarah and Patrick again, and even though I was in the UK under sad circumstances it felt like only yesterday since I had seen them last. We enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea at Dukes Hotel near St.James's Park. 

Not a very good selfie of Nelson's column...

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew
(Twenty bridges or twenty-two)
Wanted to know what the River knew,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told ...RUDYARD KIPLING

Patick and Sarah by the Brunel Museum (Southwark)