An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.