Molly and Gareth Wynn-Owens hosted mom and dad Bill and Sarah Hollo last summer in Yerevan Armenia where Gareth is currently posted. Where exactly is this? Google to the rescue – look carefully at the center of the map below and up the magnification to see Yerevan’s location:

Clearly not a geo-political tranquility zone, tucked between Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iraq, and Georgia. Hence just the place for Molly and Gareth. The clan has been anxious to get a glimpse of our Middle Easter adventurers and thanks to Molly now we have one. Here they are:

 

Sarah and Molly at The Cascade
“A magnificent display of Soviet architecture in central Yerevan”

The stunning 4th century Gerghard Monastery, one of many in the region

Sarah, Gareth and Molly on Northern Avenue
The main shopping promenade of Yerevan

Bill, Sarah and Molly on the terrace overlooking the city

Bill & Sarah outside of Yerevan

 

Not your average Cancun Funjet Travel package eh?

Many thanks Molly and Gareth for sharing these photos and providing us a vicarious armchair glimpse of your exciting world…

LC

Awhile back we solicited summer travel photos from the clan – at long last here are a few. Thanks to Hugh, Katherine and Sarah Law for sharing pictures from their recent trip to Spain!

 

Sarah overlooking the old Arab Quarter of Grenada, from the Alhambra

Supplicant Katherine in front of the Episcopal Palace in Seville

Cathedral Bell Tower (former minaret of the grand mosque) in Seville
La Giralda

Sarah at La Pedrera (Catalan for ‘quarry’), in Barcelona

Hugh at Roman aqueduct in Segova

 

OK, we’re still awaiting pictures from Armenia. And from the Portofino MBA sailboat races too.

LC

Today, Oct 2, marks a year since our loss of Jack Cromie. As we’ve described, to build wooden boats was a dream of Jack’s. He and his brother William realized that dream a little more than a year ago with the completion of the Shashoo at the Great Lakes Wooden Boat Building School in Cedarville MI. This year Bill Cromie Sr and his son William completed another beautiful wooden boat at the famous Brooklin Maine Wooden Boat School, naming it The John C. Cromie. This exquisite boat is shown below – there could be no more perfect tribute to Jack…

Here is Papa Bill’s update about the project:

“Folks, Today was the last coat of paint on the John C. Cromie, Mom told me that these were his favorite colors. I have enjoyed this whole experience from the gitgo with Bill in Maine and doing the finishing work. As Jack told me one time when he was hauling dirt for the bog at camp, that it was a “labor of love” and so this was indeed. I’ve got the rowing rig assembled in Jacks apt and have asked my friend Phil Hanson who is an expert “rigger” to help me set the pitch of the oarlocks. I’ve got to get the powerboat out of the water and hope to bring the boat up and give her a test voyage when I go up north. The weather is beautiful here, Dan is off to Ireland this weekend and Mom is on her way to Stamford on Friday.”

 

 

Drop dead gorgeous creation.

Jack is certainly smiling down on the Cromies and their tribute to him.