Maria, we are on British Airways. We will take the late afternoon flight from Paris to London Heathrow, then bus down to Gatwick, where we will take the early non-stop flight to Funchal. One interesting note, we can check in (including our bags) the night before, so we are staying at the Sofitel inside of the terminal, so that we can go right from our room to the plane.

We now have all our hotels booked and lined up. We are staying at the Holiday Inn Bastille in Paris, which is just up from the Gare de Lyon train station and Metro. We are doing the RT Air France bus CDG to Gare de Lyon and back. It is a very convenient location.

As I said, we are booked for the Sofitel for our overnight in London and then we are booked at the Hotel Porto Santa Maria in Funchal. It is right on the harbor in Funchal and close to the sky tram, the old town, and all the area transports. It is ranked #3 on Tripadvisor and we can even wave to y'all as you sail into port!!!

In fact, this will be the view from our balcony. Isn't the first one on the right the Voyager? Looks a little overcast that day. Hopefully 11/11 will look more like the bottom picture, without that many ships of course!





BTW, it was actually me that posted on Diana's computer. She hadn't logged out. She really does need to post more.

Honey, are you lurking??? LOL