The week passed in a blur with a couple of highlights - Wednesday was the most miserable morning possible to imagine. Gray clouds surrounded us, it still seemed dark at 9 am, there was thick and very determined drizzle. We had the fire lit by 11 am - that's how miseralbe it was. We were settled in for a day of reading, planning and fireside contemplation when I thought to have a look at the weather forecast and bright sunshine was forecast by 2 pm. They were dr...

If we had to use two words to describe the last two weeks, they would be 'Time Flies' or 'Tempus Fugit' (calling upon our 10 words of Latin). We started the last couple of weeks by whipping the credit cards into submission and booking our flights to Zagreb and Dubrovnik in Croatia then on to Rome, Italy. The cards were still whimpering and carrying on, so we hit them even harder and booked an apartment via AirBnB in Zagreb and another apartment in Dubrovnik via...