The days continue to race by. Any thoughts of homesickness are just way off target. I had a train of thought, today that began with me thinking about our hire car, the Citroen, and some of the really good bits like the diesel engine being so grunty but economical, the satnav, the reversing aid and the on-board computer. None of which we have in our cars in NZ. Then I moved on to our cars in NZ, that they both need warrants of fitness and road licence. I swiftly ...

17 JulyWe went to Cape Rocco a few days back, the most Westerly point of mainland Europe. It was very strange with a mist just streaming over a point and the temperature was nearly 10 C lower than the surrounding area.Doug has been guiding us to spots he visited 25 years ago and they have changed so much from sleepy villages to built up concrete towns. Some of them still have a small-town undeveloped feel but others are just horrible developments with over-crowde...

Just to finish off.Ros would like to thank all the birthday greeters and the Bookies.Spain has a really lovely feature, that being public water fountains. Every small town has water fonts for public use. You often see people bringing big bottles to fill up. In our village, here, there are 2 different systems; one with potable water and the other with non-potable. We found out the potable is of European standard quality - i.e., it's had all the filtration and chem...