You may have noticed that a week has gone by since my last post from Amsterdam. Everything is fine, but I’m taking a few days off from posting for some necessary ‘housekeeping’ chores.

We sailed from the Netherlands to England on a lovely (and smooth!) night passage and are now living temporarily in a small village in Norfolk. The countryside is glorious (pictures coming soon!), the house is huge and comfortable, and we’re getting rather used to the daily gray skies and drizzle, drizzle, drizzle that is the norm for an England winter.

This past week has been eaten up with looking for and finally purchasing a car, setting up bank accounts, getting registered with a local doctor, and other unavoidable settling-in tasks like stocking the house with groceries and figuring out how to use the washing machine.

It has been an interesting learning curve — and I’ll be back to posting in a few days!