Awww. My Latin is just about good enough for that silliness.

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Yes, it's nicely calibrated, isn't it? I still had a smidge of Latin when I got it.

P.

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I'm pretty sure the first two lines are "Having wonderful time; wish you were here," but I don't know Latin and can't puzzle out the last two lines.

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You are correct. I don't know Latin either, but I think that the last bit can roughly be rendered as, "Our room is near the train station." I await correction from the more knowledgeable.

P.

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I'd say that your translations are accurate.
We are having a wonderful time. Wish you were here.
Our room is near the train station.
I love, you love, he loves,

Now it is up to Elise, Teresa & Patrick to remember if the Latin was all Mike's or if they were part of the translation team.

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Thanks for the confirmation.

I strongly suspect that it was a collaborative effort.

P.

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Wow, I have no memory of that. I should clarify that we were never anywhere in Europe with Mike and Elise, alas.

They did visit us at our then-place on Staten Island sometime in the mid-1990s; I remember a wonderful evening of reading Tom Stoppard's Arcadia aloud. This may date from that visit. Did the postcard have an American stamp?

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You know, I was wondering about that myself, but figured you might have been over there for a convention and just joined them for a day or two.

But yes, indeed! The postcard has an American stamp.

P.

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