Today is the first real day that I wish I wasn't in the van. It has been a month now so I think that's pretty good going. Stu had a complete freak out cast night. We were parked in the forest when at about 12am a car turned up stopped opened the door then left. At that point so many things running through your head like maybe they rolled out a dead body or doing some drug deal when probably it was just someone stopping to have a pee throw some rubbish out. Anywa...

Slowly but surely my cough is clearing up but my hay fever is still pretty dreadful. Stayed in the woods last night just outside this place. Really nice fire tracks fir the dogs to run down so we let Arch off. Tearing down the path closely followed by Blaze and amazingly I shouted and whistled and he followed Blaze back. We did this quite a few times and he is still with us today so all is good. The training has begun. Sometimes is quite odd as at night when th...

Last night we went swimming at the olympic pool. It was amazing. Obviously it was swim meet as the kids gathered round their coach in the dedicated lanes. That familiar sound of whistles were going left right and centre. We sat and watched the divers and the water polo team whilst stu plucked up the courage to swim a 50m length which looks miles your first time. The water was pretty cold so we did a few lengths and went and had a shower. Stu managed them no prob...

Oopsy flash flash. 40 in a 30. Will we get a letter? After giving into the fact that I was actually quite ill I braved the german doctors. They are not in purpose built building like most of ours but just at a ground floor flat. It took me ages to figure out which bell to press and as I was about to someone cane out so I quickly nipped in. I push the door open not really knowing what to expect as it felt like I was intruding in someone's house to find a very cl...

First drink of the day BEER, sun and good company. Perrrrfect I have had an amazing weekend. Pick Annabel up from the airport on Friday night and went to Thalkirchen campsite, nothing but the best for our first guest. Unfortunately I started getting yet another cough but we all managed to get a good nights sleep. We woke up to a glorious morning, not a cloud in the sky. We showed pug round our temporary home city by eating more than you can imagine, many cups ...