ORSA BEAR PARK TWO

Ruth had been trying to see bears somewhere in Europe ever since we left wherever it was we used to live. We found out that there were bears in south west Poland after we had moved on to south east Poland. We found out that the bears in north east Poland were looking after their new-born young and had moved to an inaccessible part of the national park. In Lithuania, the authorities had closed the park when they heard we were coming. But we were too clever for the Swedes. Although the bear park was hidden in the centre of Sweden and it was a lot further away than we were expecting so that we almost ran out of diesel on the way there and had to coast most of the way down the mountain to the nearest town on the way back, they hadn't managed to get all the bears out of sight. We saw them. We saw them pretty well, in detail and numbers. The only thing was the bears were too smart for us. Every time Ruth brought out her camera the bears held up pieces of expanded metal fencing or did this kind of trick where they went all sort-of blurry, or they shrank suddenly,so that the photos weren't quite as good as we hoped. We had to extemporise a bit. Pretty impressive, eh?

P.S. The last picture's a wolf. No, honestly.