A few more London days and back to 'Onbekommerd'

I am sorry, I have been a bit slow in updating the blog!
The last week in London was comparatively uneventful. We did quite a bit of walking as usual, nice but nothing spectacular. On Friday, we had a very nice lunch with Cynthia and John (Jr) Eloff at an Italian - seafood restaurant near Victoria station and after thatb we went to the 'Queen's Galleries' to see the 'Dutch Landscapes' exhibition (not planned, but quite appropriate).
When we got back to Kew, we communicated with Sean who told us he had been offered a job in Cape Town but was not keen to take it as it would not be what he wanted to do in life, a 'job but not the start of hisn career'. Its an audacious thing to do, but we are very proud that he has a clear vsion of where he wants to go. It does mean that he will now most likely come to the UK as well and that is a big change for him (and for us as well!). This will all play itself out in the next few months and we'll repor on it through the 'blog'.
This (Saturday) morning, we got up early and Gwilym was very kind to get up early as well and drive us to Heathrow for our 7.30 flight. Gwilym and Janine, our vey special friends in London have played (and still are playing) a crucial role in our 1 1/2 year sabattical / naturalisation effort here. To be honest, we dont quite know how we could have done it without their support, giving us accomodation, an address for all the formalities etc etc, as well as exceptionally nice companionship!
When we got to Monnickendam, all was well with 'Onbekommerd' and within 2 hours of the wheels of the aircraft touching the runway we would have been ready to set 'sail' if we would not have had to do some shopping. But at 13.20 we were off in beautiful weather and continued all the way to Medemblik where we got at 18.00. As we were pretty tired and did not feel like cooking, we treated ourselves to 'Dinner ashore' in the restaurant at the Regatta Centre. We'll be here for over a week, as 'helpers' at the Delta Lloyd Regatta, part of the ISAF World Cup for Olympic Classes. It appears there are over 600 entries from 61 countries.
Will keep you updated!