Yasas! Writing this from Edinburgh having returned from our fabulous three and a half weeks in Turkey and the Greek Islands. We are sad to have to cover up our suntan's as we faced the remains of the Scottish summer! We had a fairly eventful start to the trip as we got to Edinburgh airport for our evening flight to London (to catch the 6.30am flight to Istanbul) to discover it had been cancelled and our only option was to hire a car and drive to Gatwick! After ...

Privyet! This is actually being written from Broughty Ferry where we are for a few days to take in the Open Golf at St Andrews, but we had a wonderful six days in Russia getting back late Sunday night. Due to the still fairly restricted tourism arrangements in Russia, we were on a tour for our time in the country which is not our normal style, but worked out really well. First thing to say is that weather wise, it was like being back in the Australian summer wi...