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Eating in a garden with friends again - this time in Switzerland. At Katherine's with long time neighbor Erica Thiessen. Katherine is a great cook and gardener and made a scrumptious salmon dinner with fresh green salad (the most nutritious of all foo...
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Original French headline on Roger Federer worded: "Le Seul Maitre Apres Dieu" struck us as we passed the newsstand on our walk this morning with Katherine to the plage for a coffee on Lake Geneva. It was the Swiss celebrating the Grand Slam tennis vic...
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Our host Katherine Heery met Jim and me at the Geneva airport, where we had landed dozens of times during our eight years living in Switzerland in the 1980s. Katherine and her husband Richard, Swiss citizens of British origin, were our best friends then...
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It's quite a shock to see how high gas prices soar in England. It was over one pound per liter, a liter being about one quart...so...Jim calculated the equivalent price in the NY Metro area would be over $7 per gallon!!! So as bad as things get with o...
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Gentlemen decked out Sunday afternoon in Burford, one of the most touristy towns in England. A style not often seen in NYC....
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Grocery store staff in Waitrose. We don't see this in America. Note also - The British love their sweet cakes and breads.
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Katie Hamilton with a tiger. This was taken in Thailand, but Katie and her boyfriend Tal just returned from a tiger reserve in India where they were sometimes just feet away from a free roaming tiger. In her young life, Katie has already experienced...
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I am gratefuul for
TWO: Longlasting friends (and great hosts),
Kevin and Tammy Hamilton ...
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1. Thirty-three years of a loving marriage...
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And did I mention Freddie - Tal's dog who has become part of the Hamilton family? Tal and Katie rescued this strong hunter beagle from a shelter and at first it was spirited and lovable Freddie who took them for walks and who led them to hunt for him d...
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Tammy and I enjoy have fun planning meals that are organic and we eat lots of whole grains and fresh produce. But that's not the whole story. Tammy says she is "not fanatical about food. Because that would backfire. It's good to enjoy life and no...
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Michael and Katie Hamilton, center and right, are the son and daughter of Kevin and Tammy. Tal is the boyfriend of Katie, who is studying law at Oxford, not far from the home. Katie and Tal will be living in the family home. Michael came for a long ...
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According to Tammy's 26 year old daughter Katie, Tammy is "the most perfect person" because she is such a great mother, a great cook, always giving, has co-written a screenplay in process of being produced in |Hollywood, PLUS she takes great care of her...
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Jim and I took our hosts Kevin and Tammy and Katie's boyfriend Tal out to lunch at a village pub in Eastleach for drinks. Kevin and Tal had a robust ale, Jim a Guiness and Tammy and I enjoyed a shandy - beer and lemonade. There was a guinea fowl on sp...
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Our first day inOxfordshire, England was all we longed for - catching up with long-time friends, meeting their daughter, Katie, now a beautiful young woman, with her boyfriend, Tal, who both recently returned from managing a tiger reserve in India and a...
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We're leaving for Europe tomorrow for three weeks to visit long time friends.
I'm going to find out this July whether French women (and Europeans in general) today still are not fat. My husband Jim and I will visit friends we met years ago when we l...
