born 15 April, 1967 I recently published a blog post about my experiences with the Russians in London over 50 years ago. Unfortunately, I left off a photo of our family returning from Britain on the SS United States in 1967. Well, here it is. You can see our youngest son, Mark on his mother’s… Continue reading My Son Mark
Month: April 2020
spy in from the cold(cont’d)
We leave Moscow and take a long train ride across Russia to the Black Sea In Moscow, we were like country bumpkins, enjoying the tourist sites, waiting in line to see the embalmed body of V.I. Lenin and posing in front of famous landmarks. We photographed everything but were most impressed with the excessive width… Continue reading spy in from the cold(cont’d)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (i.e. the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory)
To the regular readers of this blog, I apologise for the excessive length of this posting. I have broken the text into a few parts. London newspapers are repeatedly reporting the skullduggery of the Russians around the world and this has made it interesting to tell this story of our early days in London dating… Continue reading The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (i.e. the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory)
The Lotus Flower Carving of Tutankhamun – A Sad Tale
Several years ago, when I was the owner/director of a travel company based in London, I organised several trips to Egypt for my American ex-patriot clients. The tour was called The Pyramids and Nile Cruise. I personally took the trip several times and became a great fan of this incredible part of the world. I… Continue reading The Lotus Flower Carving of Tutankhamun – A Sad Tale