Our day starts at 2am as we get up for our 3am car to the airport. We have uneventful flights to Denver, then San Francisco and to Pape’ete, Tahiti.

The ship was still sailing towards Vukovar, Croatia in the morning arriving in Vukovar around 10 am. Vukovar was the site of a fierce battle in the breakup of Yugoslavia with the Serbs shelling the town for three months.

The morning starts with an optional tour to the Budapest Jewish quarter. We took a tour of the Synagogue when we were here last year. We opted instead to do some more shopping. Donna’s bag is in Budapest, but may not be delivered before we leave. Mine is in Frankfurt, and will not make it before we leave this afternoon.

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.