And since my retiral, I have had the chance to see so many parts of the world that I had long thought impossible for me to have seen.
When we first got married, we had a week in France, visiting Paris, Versailles, Fecamp and Lisieux.
The next time we got abroad was on our Silver Wedding, when the boys clubbed together and sent us to Holland on a mini weekend cruise.
The taste for travel was reignited.
Then, while ill and off work, I was invited to Sao Paolo in Brazil by Prince Bertrand. That trip fell in Holy Week. That was a truly memorable trip. And I was to return there a few years later at Christmas Time.
Since then, I have been to Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Ireland, England, Wales, Canada a few times,and last year, for the first time, America.
(On one of the Canada trips, we flew over Greenland as the sun was setting. Amazing sights we saw from way up there!)
God willing, I will be returning to America in October this year again.
It is a wonderful gift to see so much of the world. Travel really does widen one's horizons. The chance to see amazing places, meet so many different people, to try other cuisines. To sit in pavement cafes and watch the world go by.
The places...so many. Where to begin? The Vatican. The Eiffel Tower. The CNN Tower in Toronto. The Martyrs' Shrine in Ontario. The wonderful churches in St Paolo. Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. The ruined abbeys of England, Wales and Scotland. Gettysburg Battlefield. Perhaps I appreciate them so much because I had long though them to be beyond my reach.
It is really a tremendous gift to be able to see so much of God's wonderful world. Louis Armstrong got it right with his song...."What a wonderful world."
I attach a few of my photos of some of the places mentioned above.
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| Toronto |
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| Sao Paolo |
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| Gettysburg Battlefield |
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| Tewkesbury Cathedral |
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| Turin |
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| Oban |
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