By cashing in some points on my credit card rewards program, I've just nailed down round trip airfare to London in June for about $150 out of pocket. So my itinerary is taking shape quite nicely: I'll fly to Heathrow on a Saturday night, see Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Sunday afternoon, then hop a flight to Rome that evening. In the morning I will fly to Florence, and then take the train back to Rome later in the week in order to jet to Budapest for a few days before returning to England for a visit to the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon (where I will see productions of King Lear and Antony And Cleopatra), the back to London for a tennis coaches conference, followed by the first day of Wimbledon. The night of June 21 I will catch a flight back to New York. All told, it will be nine days spent in Europe during what is probably the best time of the year to be there.
