Chakrata

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The Golden Girls Tour

Now who are the Golden Girls you might ask?

Molly (Molly Rule Steele - Taejaan)

Ann (Ann Knight - Neilhurst)

and myself of course, AMC (Anne-Marie)

The Golden Girls Tour Itinery & Diary
Date	Who	Where	The Diary
19th July	AMC	Arrives in London	Heat Wave to say the least & no A/C Visited Windsor Castle A boat ride on the Thames
21st July	AMC	Flyto Stockholm	Was caught up at Stockholm Airport.... The Lebanese evacuation .... Swedish/Lebanese dual citizens escaping the turmoil
22nd & 23rd July	AMC	Vasteras International	Judged Basset Hounds, Aust Kelpies, Border Terriers, Pointers, Whippets, Aust Terriers & Group 10 Specials Met new friends, Inger & Rolf Johannsen of Skyings Greyhounds.
24th July	AMC	Fly to Helsinki	Baggage overweight already! Had a walk in the Park . such a gorgeous city
25th July	AMC	Bus to St Petersberg	Now that was an experience!
26th & 27th July	AMC	St Petersberg	Oh what a fabulous place! and... the food & Vodka were glorious!
27th July	AMC	Bus to Helsinki	Re-lived the Russian bus experience
28th July	AMC	Fly to Stockholm	Finnair is one of the best airlines I have travelled with.
29th & 30th July	AMC	Mariefred	Swedish Whippet Club & Swedish Sighthound Specialties Met new friends, Anita & Howard John (UK - Afghans) Had the pleasure of seeing some very rare Sighthounds and had an education tour of those breeds with All Breeds Judge Kenneth Ayr. Couldn't work the washing machine & had some fun drying clothes - wish I had a photo of that Mariefred is a fabulous place, I did enjoy this weekend
31st July	AMC	Fly to Brussels	AMC meets with old friends Narelle & Duncan
1st - 3rd August	AMC	Brussels	A whirlwind tour of Belgium (now that is a hidden treasure)
4th August	AMC	Fly to Birmingham & Train to Stafford	The Golden Girls meet & enjoyed dinner with the Hound Club officials.... Ann & I were badly behaved
5th August	Molly	Stafford	Molly judged Whippet Dogs at the Hound Club and lost the final adjudication for Best of Breed after putting up some very good argument
6th August	The GG	Stafford	Toured the potteries
7th August	The GG	Stafford	Got lost with the GPS.... intended to visit Chester, found our way to Blackpool & enjoyed Fish & Chips by the seaside
8th August	The GG	Fly to Rome	but the bags didn't come with us.... we had to go shopping! Finally the bags arrived!
9th - 10th August	The GG	Toured Rome	Toured this absolutely beautiful city, lots of walking & shopping Visited Bitte & Piereluigi at Sobers. had a traditional Sicilian Dinner and saw my beautiful Galithea again and all of the fabulous Sobers Hounds.... now that was fantastic
12th August	The GG	Train to Florence	A very enjoyable trip through the Italian countryside
13th- 15th August	The GG	Florence	Toured this absolutely beautiful city Visited Pisa - had the most expensive Coca Cola ever
16th August	The GG	Train to Venice	Another super trip through the Italian countryside and then by boat to our Hotel in Venice... then had to drag our bags over the little bridge (I had some help from a very lovely Venetian lady.... who took pity on me struggling with the heavy load)
17th - 18th August	The GG	Venice	This was my favourite city I loved everything about Venice
19th August	The GG	Fly to London	Molly had some fun with the Custome - new rules for flying since the Terrorist activity at Heathrow - Molly won, she was allowed to keep her cosmetics with her
20th August	The GG	London	Ann meets up with her Son & his family from Denmark Molly & AMC go shopping
21st August	The GG	Fly home	We went to the Airport together and bid farewell to each other