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Halfway Home

Dear Reader

We are halfway home in terms of time and more than half way in flying distance.

The Gang of Twenty (Letters A-T for Sound Off) left Rome yesterday lunchtime and arrived in Kuala Lumpur early this morning KL time. Our rooms in the Pan Pacific Hotel were not available so we were offered complimentary breakfast. What a spread! Traditional English, Indian and Chinese Malay, Continental, fresh fruit etc etc. Gradually over the next couple of hours the rooms became available, and we are all installed now for our rest before finishing our journey home. The swimming pool is proving popular and I may even venture poolwards in a minute as it is quite beautiful.

Anyway, we get free, if not slow, internet, so I will upload the photos John Campbell gave me from the Vatican event. Thanks John.

Concert at St Paul Outside the Walls

Lining up at our accommodation

Coming along our street


Beside the Vatican Walls

Processing in the Piazza


Rehearsing O Bone Jesu

Matilda Moment

More Matilda

Yet more Matilda

Heading through security

Making our way through the Basilica

After the service

Enough with the photos already!



Ciao Lovelies!

Cxxx

PS: the pool was lovely.

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