Monday, August 10, 2015

Off we go!

Despite the van being mostly packed by last  night, our intentions of leavng by 11am slipped to 12pm - which, in the scheme of things isn't too bad.  Our first call was to drop the  dog off with Michael and Glenys at  their new house.  Otto was off on his holidays, keeping Michael company during his perfectly timed leave, and "helping" with some gardening jobs.   It was raining.    

M & G provided us with lunch, we waved a hurried goodbye to the dog (through a closed door - we didn't want him trying to come with us), and off we went - heading towards Stowmarket, and our first night in the van.

It's been a long time...........

It's been 9 years infact since we went on our 2 month jaunt around Europe in Little Vanno (*sigh*)  - and here we are again, revisiting some of the old haunts, in a bigger van, with 2 kids, and a bit more grey hair (Jon that is - not me, I'm still youthful looking........).

We were reading the old blog to see what we had done when we were last here - in Holland that is - because we couldn't remember (old age, etc), and Jon said that maybe I should write a blog always - for our benefit, and I thought, well, why not?   I do like to ramble on about stuff,and, although I always have good intentions of keeping a diary sort of thing - I even save things to stick into it, tickets and the like, this year I wrote it for the first 3 days, got the kids to do drawings in it and everything, and then.........well, it went by the wayside.  This will be better.

Jon has set me up with his bluetooth keyboard, and I've hitched it to the Hudl, which since it's arrival, appears to have been mostly flat, and serve no purpose other than for Zac to occasionally play "Angry Sharks" or  Elliot to watch downloaded episodes of "Pointless", so, maybe this will be it's calling! I just need get over the fact that the keys are in the wrong places (this would be improved by being able to turn the light on - but the kids are refusing to sleep, and I can't light the place up as that wouldn't help) and then I'm sure I will be racing along, blethering on into the blogosphere........

Anyway, this is not the point.  The point is, that we are on holiday........................