Hello Jake!

Tomorrow we are going to Lyttelton to meet Jake for the first time apart from googly Skype conversations and across the ether smiles! It will be wonderful to see Olive, Lottie and Tim again as well!

A Year Later

We are in Kewstoke, house, goat, hen, dog sitting!
A complete year has passed since we last wrote on the blog and so much has happened. Three weeks in Australia, a month in Thailand, a month in Laos and several weeks in Cambodia before arriving back in England last March.
So many memories and images come to mind, so here are but a few;
Staying with good friends in Perth.
Bangkok, busy, cacophonous, intriguing, confusing all together!
Sad, sad tigers being stroked and stroked into docility against their natures.
Bamboo Nest, with hammocks in the sun.
Practicing our best Thai to order vegetarian food and receiving chicken liver!
The night train
Relics of cities that show the rich lives in the past.
Crossing borders.
Days on the boat along the Mekong
Trekking in Thailand and Laos, meeting amazing families from all over the world.
Christmas on an island with the first bath for months.
Cocktails and sunsets on beautiful beaches.
More border crossings
Our first tattoo!
The Genocide Museum and Killing Caves
A million bats  leaving the caves.
Bamboo trains run on lawn mower engines!
The circus for former street children in Battambang, superb and gifted.
Ankhor Wat !!!!!!!!!!!

We shall select a few photos to add to our ex bat album.