Home and Heart

We said goodbye to our friends Theresa and Mike in Malta

and Hello to friends Danielle and Paige (her dog) in Rockville, Maryland

For the next couple of days we are in Georgetown trying to “finish” paperwork for the Malta move and enjoying walks in the neighborhood. We’ll also take in some of the Smithsonian tomorrow.

Rock Creek Park

Charming house in Georgetown

Is it Spring already?!

After looking at 7 different places, the eighth place was a charm

2 bedrooms, one bath. No stairs. 100 yards from the ocean and an easy walk to dozens of stores and cafes.

There is no picture of the living room here because the current tenants stuff was piled there.

This is the view from the front door.

Our new landlord at the front door.

30 Triq Sir Luigi Camilleri, Sliema (suh-lee-ma)

We are on the ground level with our own entrance (a maisonette)

Guest bedroom

Master bedroom

After we posted earlier today, we went out for a drink at the Indigo Hotel rooftop…

Nice view!

First we admired the doorway…

On closer inspection – it is good to know that we can get this sort of help in Valletta!

This photo and the ones that follow take you from the street into our hotel…

Good night, Valletta!

Last night we settled into a small family boutique hotel in the heart of Valletta – Casa Asti.

It was a lovely evening for a stroll and dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Today was a quiet day – morning walks around Valletta and lunch with friends.

The garden is inside a 400 year old convent dedicated to the care of orphaned girls.

Tomorrow we meet with the real estate rental agent to start looking for our ideal apartment.

We’ll share photos of some of those places tomorrow…

This is a link to a short YouTube video about 11 Madison Park, the restaurant where we have celebrated our last three anniversaries. It is a really special place.

Since Christmas we’ve been in Mystic, Connecticut…

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..then on to Manhattan! We spent one afternoon at the Guggenheim.

That evening we had dinner at 11 Madison Park for our 17th Anniversary for the third year in a row. The staff was so welcoming. We enjoyed chatting with familiar staff who actually remembered us from last year. And then there is “THE FOOD”!

Then on to Queens, for quality time and lunch with son Sam and DIL Katherine at Agnanti – a lovely Greek restaurant in Astoria.

As for tomorrow – it is all business at the Queens County Clerk’s office and the NY Department of State to get documents apostilled for Malta.

As some of you know, Chris hasn’t had her phone for a few days (it got left on the Cape). She will be reunited with it AND we get to play with grandchildren in Cornwall on Hudson this weekend.

We made a change in our itinerary (for those of you keeping track). We will be off to Malta for a week starting January 4 to look at apartments and meet with the consultants helping us through the legal stuff. We just couldn’t see our way to renting a place online without looking at neighborhoods and finding a good fit.

We hope our next blog will include photos of our new digs come April.

Greetings from Eastham, Massachusetts – in the heart of Cape Cod!

We are enjoying time with Dick’s step mother Helen Jo Howard. The gingerbread town including the seacoast (blue frosting) is the pride of the Chatham Bars Inn, where we enjoyed a Christmas Eve feast last night.

There was a dusting of snow last night to make things even more festive!

Merry Christmas to all! God bless us every one.

We finally got our SD plates on the car!

In the meantime – we have been fine-tuning our final winnowing, saying good-by to many friends here in the Capital District. We’ve also done monumental battle with the bureaucracy getting all the documents (some with notary and some with Apostille) needed for the Malta excursion. Current plan is to leave the cozy care of Brooks Jensen and Lynn Ashley where we have been since Dec 1. What follows is a list of our ‘planned’ itinerary over the next months. ‘Planned’ in quotes because it is certainly subject to change. We are looking forward to see so many of you along the way!

Dec 22-26: Massachusetts

Dec 26-29: Connecticut 

Dec 29- Jan 3: NYC

Jan 3-5: Cornwall on Hudson

Jan 5-10: NYC

Jan 10-12: Rockville, MD

Jan 12-17: Towson, MD

Jan 17-19: Virginia

Jan 19-26: North Carolina

January 26-31: Georgia

Jan 31-February 1: South Carolina

Feb 4-6: New Orleans

Feb 6-20 En route to Kansas City

Feb 20-22 Kansas City (everything’s up to date…)

Feb 22-25: Tucson

February 25-28:  Kapaa, HI

Feb 28-Mar 10 : Japan

Mar 10-15: Cambodia

Mar 15-30: India

Mar 31 – Malta

Went to Cornwall on Hudson yesterday to visit grandchildren Cyrus and Maggie (and their parents 🤣). Early Christmas.

Today we went to adorable Montessori preschool holiday concert then made our way home with a stop at Mohonk Mountain House. These photos don’t do the place justice, especially during the Holidays. Worth a trip to go see it for yourself!

Hi, folks! Since December 1, we have been staying in Voorheesville with our friends Lynn Ashley and Brooks Jensen on Swift Road.

We’ll be here until December 21 when we set off on The Journey.. We start with ‘Family Christmas in New England’.. We’ll post about those visits as they happen.

Our ‘dance card’ is very full these next couple of weeks. For example, last night we were with friends Greg and Lauree in Albany for fireworks. They have a place overlooking the Mall so we were sheltered from the cold.

Thanksgiving in Baltimore was great! We were with Caitlin (our daughter) & Alex and their five sons. We’ll start celebrating Christmas this weekend with Seth (our son) & Megan and their children in Cornwall on Hudson..