Wednesday 30th May: Ballum nr Ribe I guess, even imagine that we might think of today as the first day of our trip. Two days of driving but today no miles, no motorways and no traffic jams. We are on a camp site at a small place called Ballum, about 20 miles north of the border. The sea is a mile away to the west over fields and it is quiet. Indeed at times all we can hear are the birds: and they are noisy! Rampaging through the tress, hunting for food, the...

Tuesday 29th May Denmark After a pleasant day yesterday, and overnight decisions, we decided to head for Denmark and our first point of stay. That is, on the North Sea coast near a national park, south of Ribe. Not too far, only about 280 miles but all, or most on motorway. Just a little traffic as we passed Bremen and Hamburgh. Well, that is what we, maybe I, thought as we prepared for teh jpurney last night. And as they say, ' One of those days'. S...

Scandi Summer 2018 Day 1 and half So on Sunday 27th we left Aylesford having spent the weekend looking after William. He was delightful and great fun! The drive to Harwich was uneventful and without any of the delays one might have expected. After a shortish wait we were allowed on the boat at about 9 pm, parking on a vast cavern of a deck. Unfortunately we then had to climb ( I say unfortunate but I was happy with the effort: Meryl struggled) from Floor...

Now on way from home. First stop, Aylesford to look after 5 year-old for weekend