Hi Clarence

How lovely to hear from you.  I am also retired from North Wales Police since 2004, after 30 years service.  I was a Police Constable and an authorized firearms officer.  I worked the local Wrexham area in North Wales finishing as a Radio Communications Operator.

I am visiting together with my wife Christine, son Christopher and his wife Liz, and my two grandchildren Emily and James.  My son was in the Royal Air Force for 17 years and served in Iraq.  He is now a primary school teacher (ages 5-11), and Liz is Head of International Studies in a senior school.

We have travelled extensively in America and love your wonderful country and hospitality shown to us. We have never been to Texas before and are looking for a bit of sun ?? over Easter away from the cold winter and snow we have had.  We are staying just outside Galveston for 2 weeks in 'Escapes to Galveston'  11743 Farm Road 3005, right on the beach.  Hope those horrible hurricanes stay away. We realise the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike.

We would like to see the general area and especially Moody Gardens, Houston Space Centre, and any other interesting tourist sites. We love wine and hope to visit one or two local wineries while there. Christopher and Liz love scuba diving and are arranging a dive as well.

We arrive on Saturday 3 April on flight number AF636, Air France Paris to Houston, arriving at 1.45pm.  We fly out on Friday 16 April at 4.15pm.

We are really looking forward to Texas, Liz has found a relative researching his family tree, who lives just outside Houston.

We have downloaded information from the internet but have not been able to find a good map yet.

Kind regards.

 Alan

 Hi Alan,