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 PHOTOS: CAROL AND JOHN IN LONDON 

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Carol and John Clair, two friends from Wisconsin, made their very first visit outside North America this month, and we visited four cities in just 16 days. We saw all the main sights in London, Paris, Stratford-upon-Avon and Cardiff (Carol’s father being Welsh). We lost a day due to a flight delay which held them up in Detroit, Michigan, but they made it in the end.

 

 

PHOTOS: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, CARDIFF AND MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN BATTERSEA, LONDON

We also caught a Legends of Rock’n'Roll show in Paris which was supposed to feature Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. Little Richard had to postpone his European tour till next March due to hip replacement surgery, but Jerry’s piano-playing/singing sister Linda Gail Lewis replaced Richard and rocked the joint, as did Jerry.

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Congratulations to our American friends for voting in Barack Obama as a hopefully progressive Democrat President to be inaugurated next January. Let’s hope the first Afro-American President steers his country back into the mainstream world arena, mends fences with Cuba by lifting the embargo, sorts out the financial and domestic crises, and withdraws troops from Iraq. Also that there is now progress on the follow-up to Kyoto in protecting our environment, and also in implementing the Nuclear Non-Ploriferation Treaty, which required the US, UK and other nuclear powers to abolish nuclear weapons as soon as possible, not develop new ones as they have been doing.

I have been taking an American couple around London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Cardiff and next week Paris, their first visit to Europe. They are elated Obama has been elected, and look forward to a new era in American politics, as we all do.