CARDIFF, WALES

We watched eagerly from our veranda as we approached Cardiff, hoping to see the car driven by our friend, Hugh Bryant. Hugh, a maritime attorney, knew how to drive right next to our ship, and indeed we stepped off the gangway right up to his car. Hugh and Bill are friends from Oriel College, Oxford, and they must have read the same dress memo: checked jackets and cord trousers. Hugh introduced us to his new vivacious girlfriend, Kenny Okesanjo, and took us to his house in Penarth where we shared prosecco and appreciated the amazing flowers in Hugh's garden (the peonies were a foot wide!). Then we were off for lunch at the Captain's Wife, a seaside pub with a fine menu, - and much talk, talk, talk, about the last two Covid filled years when we have not been able to see each other.