Weekend with Becky and Nick

We have had a lovely weekend with our friends Becky and Nick. They live in Vancouver, and are flying home today, and was really great to have them stay with us in (icy) Sheen for a couple of days.

We had a delicious dinner at Brouge Restaurant last night. Pleased to say it is still on my recommended places to eat in Richmond list. We had mussels all round and they boys tried out some of the Belgian beers on offer. Picture will be posted soon.

Despite the snow and ice, their flights home were fortunately on time today, which is great given they spent 8 hours at Rome airport on Thursday waiting for what seems to be the only Easyjet flight that actually made it to Gatwick that day.

Nick had to leave a little earlier to catch his flight home, but it was great to take Beck along to church this morning and meet some local friends over cups of tea (and rather spicy crisps), and also just spend a bit more time together catching up.

Really great to see them both and look forward meeting up again soon. In the meantime, really grateful that emails, blogs and skype make the world a smaller place. They mean it is able to keep up with good friends, whether they are minutes or miles away, and no matter what sort of a day we are having. And I for one am really thankful for that.