After months of planning, booking of flights, hotels and ferries and organising the shipping and customs clearance into Canada, we are on our way.
Our flight left Heathrow at noon, some 45 minutes later than scheduled because of air traffic delays. It was an uneventful seven hour flight across the Atlantic and, as we came into Boston, we encountered the weather of a tropical storm that had hit the coast of the Gulf a couple of days previously. We only broke through the cloud when we were about 500ft above the runway. It was not the sort of welcome to the US we had been hoping for! Still, we cleared US immigration and got our bags in a relatively, for the US, quick time. We were met by my nephew Stephen as we walked out of the baggage hall and he drove us the short distance to his house in Brookline, a suburb of Boston.
Stephen's wife, Anita, and their two girls, Sophia and Athena, arrived shortly after. In the evening, Anita prepared a wonderful meal for us all. It was a great way to end the first day of our US/Canadian trip.
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