GRANDAD AND RUTH'S HOME ON WHEELS

It's me again, little T. This is a picture of Grandad and Ruth's home. They live in it all the time! You can just see my reindeer bag on the ground. (Grandad says it's an elk,whatever that is.)



Here we are again, looking at Ruth.

BIRTHDAY

Here are some pictures of Mummy's birthday, opening her presents. I gave Mummy a music box that plays "Happy Birthday". I think it was her best present! Here we are looking at the present my Bruton Grandma gave to Mummy. It was a scarf. Here we are at Mummy's birthday dinner as the sun was going down. Ruth took the pictures. Here I am, helping Ruth how to take better pictures!

And here's a video!

Beached

Here we are watching fishermen. They put a net around all the fish and then two men dive in the water and throw the fish onto the beach.



There's a crab!



Listening to Grandad telling a story.



He's stopped.



We are watching the captain getting ready to sail back to the campsite.

EASY FLYING

Hello, I'm little T and these are some photos of the holiday I and Mummy had with Grandad and Ruth. This is my plane landing at Split in Croatia.



It's getting closer.



Here's us coming from the plane.



Here we are in the terminal.



And there's Grandad!

Normal Service will be Resumed as soon as Possible

We are sorry to all our impatient readers, waiting for our next Post. We have been a bit busy the last week with no ad lib. internet access as we had in Slovenia. We are soon splitting from Split and will be on our travels to Korcula, Dubrovnik, Mostar and Sarajevo. God knows when we shall have easy internet access again and He hasn't told us when this will be.

We hear the UK has had a below average summer. It has made all our trouble worthwhile.

John and Ruth.

John and Ruth. It's Official - We're Going to Split.

We hope to arrive there on 26th. August and leave just over a week later for the Croatian island of Korcula, where Marco Polo is supposed to be from. Then we go to Dubrovnik before visiting Mostar and Sarajevo in Bosnia and then heading up to Hungary (we have heard there are food shortages) where we hope to stop at Lake Balaton before arriving in Budapest about 15th. September. We then go to Romania (jokes about going to remain here might follow!) and Bulgaria (and perhaps Moldova, but that has to be mulled over). We should get to Turkey in early October where we plan a swing through the south and west of the country, passing through Cappadocia (land of the Hittites, I think) before reaching Istanbul in the last week of October. So jokes about having Turkey for Christmas are a bit over term.

In November we shall cross northern Greece with stopovers at Travolta and Newton-John. If we get reports that it's safe(ish), we shall cross the Adriatic via Albania, if not, we'll go direct to Italy. It gets a bit vague then. We haven't decided where to go in Italy but "most of it" is favourite at the moment. That should take November.

We then intend to skip (or should it be "prance") across southern France to overwinter in southern Spain. (Let's hope it keeps dry, your tolerance for bad puns might be wearing thin.) Then it's a loop through Portugal and Santiago de Compostela before once more reaching France in Feb./March.

So that's the plan. Anybody fancy meeting us anywhere along the route? Or any ideas where we should go, within reason and decency?
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MEETING PEOPLE AND MAKING FRIENDS 2

This is a caption competition. What do the bubbles over my head say? Remember this is a respectable blog!

We have met people in Slovenia at Danica Camp so last "friends" blog out of date. What is more they are from Wollaston near home! So we had a good meal out!

Also met Caroline who gave us each a wonderful Shiatsu massage. Highly recommended if you are travelling and meet two Aussies from Perth in a blue van ask Caroline to give you a Shiatsu massage.

Connection - R, my half-brother, lives in Perth, Australia but used to live in Wollaston.
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