We arrived at Nice airport yesterday where Stuart was waiting for us, he had a good few days skiing and conditions were good. We drove to our farmhouse about an hour from Nice, it was a lovely sunny day. The farmhouse is a beautiful old stone building in the countryside with a huge garden which used to be full of olive trees, a few still remain. We drove to a village close by called Callas and today we went to the local Sunday market in the village of Muy, so muc...

Hello everyone, just to update you on our travels, Stuart is in Tignes in France at the moment skiing with friends unitil saturday, where he will meet me and the boys. We fly out to Nice airport on Satuday morning at 8am. We are all packed and ready to go, the boys finished school today and are getting excited again. We will be spending the next 4 weeks in a farmhouse in Provence and then on to Greece for a week sailing. Stuarts sister Lynne will be joining us...

This morning we have been to the top of the Empire State Building, to the viewing platform on the 88th floor!! what a fantastic view, it was cold though and quite windy but it was great. We are now at the hotel just waiting for a taxi to take us to JFK airport for our journey home, cant beleive its all gone so fast. Boys will be back at school for just over a week then we all go off again on the second part of our journey. Bye for now, lots of love helen. stuart...

We have just come back from seeing Mary Poppins at the new amsterdam theatre on Broadway, it was a great show and tom and harry really liked it. There are so many other shows to see as the theatres are all around.

New York, a city that doesnt sleep, this is the what we see when we come out of our hotel, mega busy Time Square and lots of yellow cabs!!! we really love it.