Our Prague to Budapest tour last Fall ended in Budapest, so we’ve seen some of the city.

Today we travel to Budapest to get on the ship in the afternoon. When we arrived in Heathrow in the morning, the baggage handling system was not working. They asked us to put our checked luggage in an area that had quite a number of bags already.

When we got on the airplane, the baggage handling system had been repaired, but only about 50% of the bags made it on the flight. In retrospect, we should have brought our checked luggage to the gate and gate checked it, since it was small enough to carry on, we just had too many bags. Our luggage was in the 50% that didn’t make it on the flight.

Yesterday we went to the Seaford area to see the Seven Sisters cliffs.

In the morning we did an easy two-mile run and then did some laundry. In the afternoon, we walked down to the Royal Pavilion.

We see St. Augustine’s Abby, St. Martin’s church and the Roman Museum then head back to Brighton.

The Canterbury Cathedral, St.Augustine’s Abby, and St Martin’s church are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We took the train from Preston Park to Canterbury this morning. It was much cheaper to stay out of London, but it took four trains with three transfers to do it. It was actually 15 minutes faster even with all the transfers.

It was a very nice morning, I got up early and went for a run on the path around Lake Monona. I wasn’t sore from the 100k ride yesterday.

Got there a little later than we wanted, but still made my 7:30am start time. 63/64 degrees at start. I wore my arm warmers.

We met at the Trek headquarters in Waterloo, WI for breakfast in the cafeteria and then a short introduction to Trek Travel. There were about 60 people in the room, but only three couples had taken a Trek Travel trip. We took one in Provence, France in 2023.

Elizabeth Bay is on the west side of Isabela Island. It is an area of mangroves that has lots of wildlife. Tours here are a panga ride, you don’t get off or get in the water.