Episode 2The weather finally took a turn for the better and we were eventually ready to be off on our way, all about the same time.L, in a fit of efficiency booked us on the Dunkirque ferry on a Friday evening, then Heather told us that traffic is horrendous on a Friday afternoon on the motorway so L got a bit stressed over that. We headed off on our way fairly early so as to avoid that Friday afternoon chaos. We got a good run to Dover, no hold-ups at all and go...

Episode 1A very cheery hello to all my adoring fans, I’m back again! Well, here we are again, back in Arundel.The summer wore on hot and humid. The turtles came and laid and the eggs turned into hatchlings and ran down the beach to the sea, never to be seen again most likely. Not many nesting turtles on Oaks beach this last summer and the hatching rate wasn’t real good either, never-the-less L assisted in launching a good number of them.I did get to ...

Turtle special, I'll have you all know that I haven't been to the beach to see this for myself, being a stuffed toy the beach with all that sand isn't the ideal place though I have been promised a visit sometime. I'm still waiting. This is about L's interest in the giant marine turtles that nest in this region. Satellite tracker Turtles L's first night back at the beach on turtle watch brought in Dark and Stormy. She is a loggerhead turtle of special interest. ...

Episode 17 Well, I wasn’t wrong, I didn’t do much for the rest of our stay in the UK. In fact I spent it mostly sitting on the lounge in our van doing nothing, just watching the weather. We did have some glorious autumn days and some terribly drab drizzly ones. D did most of the work he wanted to on the car. Spent weeks getting those blend motors sorted. It was a big job that required most of the dash being pulled out. First he fitted a replacem...

Episode 16 We arrived in Berlin fairly early in the day so after finding our hotel we left the car in the car park and took the Uban (underground) into the city centre.For those of you who are old enough to remember the Berlin Wall, the main city centre from before Soviet times was behind the wall in the Eastern Sector of the City. Since the wall came down it has once more regained its old place in the scheme of things and a stroll down Unden den Linden is a st...