Midsummer Night

Well, am only 14 minutes late. Fabiana and I didn't make it home from London in time to fully prepare for our Druidic celebration, so we'll just have to wait until next year. It was light until 11.00 at least tonight (fell briefly asleep in car and so did not make note of precise minute of light's exit).

Today, met Steve Jenkins, Steve Rogers (both from Cardiff Bay Rotary and our cat-herders for the day), Fabiana and Danielle -- the outbound Scholar from Cardiff who will be studying in Lyon next year -- in London for our visit to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, courtesy of a Chelsea Rotarian. (Reason for meeting, instead of travelling to London with, was spent last evening with Helene dining on Thames, watching England win, and solving problems of world.) First, though, our Welsh contingent lunched with Westminster West Rotary club and there were three other Americans there visiting the club as well! Random :) A Methodist minister from Minnesota, a lady from Iowa and her friend from Illinois -- they had all been to the Copenhagen conference as well and have been travelling around since.

Will write about Foreign Office visit tomorrow -- so interesting!... at moment, however, a) feet hurt from vanity of wearing Cute Danish Shoes longer than sensible before changing into Slightly Less-Cute Welsh Shoes, which admittedly have added bonus of not further irritating blisters from yesterday's vanity as well as not cutting off circulation to first and last toe digits of feet and b) shoulders suffering from idiocy of carrying overnight bag through entire central part of London today and refusing help from others as did not want to burden them with my silliness :) It was a magnificent day and also very windy! (this is not a complaint, just an observation... as I love wind, except in combination with lip gloss.)