The last few days have been both great fun and a great challenge. Caen is lovely, as are it's sights, but the language barrier has been at times extremely difficult. On our first morning we booked our D-Day tour for Friday and planned our three days with the help of the tourism office. We meandered through the streets and sampled our first pastry in France (pain au chocolat of course!) and got a feel for the city. It is actually quite new as 80% per cent was des...

We enjoyed our last few days in Sweden, relaxing by the lake in Bunn (the nearest village to Henrik and Donya's summer house), rowing, eating delicious meals and visiting Vadstena: home to an old royal castle and the church and resting place of the only Swedish saint, Saint Birgitta. It's been a much slower way to see a country but that made it all the better! So after a lovely relaxing week in Sweden we were rudely shocked back to the reality of traveling today...