The best laid plans!

The last few weeks have been weeks of frustrated plans and learning to adapt to the changing circumstances and unexpected stuff life throws up. We flew back to the UK mid February. As you may recall from our last post we welcomed our grand daughter in to the world on the 20th February. We planned to stay until the 4th March but sadly Graham’s Mother passed away on the 3rd March so we delayed our return. We are grateful that we were in England at the time and were able to see her during her last few days.  Once arrangements had been made for her funeral and thanksgiving we rescheduled … Read More

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Winter in Portugal

When we made our  last post on this blog Christmas was a few days away. We celebrated Christmas Eve with friends from Riverside Church at their home followed by a Christmas Eve  service at Riverside. It is great to meet new people and share experiences and also see what we have in common. Christmas day was different from those we have had in England, the sun was shining and we walked along the beach and enjoyed coffee and cakes sitting outside by the beach.  On the way back we chatted to our Belgium freinds from the boat Amadaus sitting by the beach. Cafes and restaurants were open and there was… Read More

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Happy Christmas from Cascias

We had a good trip back to the UK in November and it was good to catch up with family. We returned to the boat and our French neighbours had left as we expected. They kindly left a bottle of wine on our boat. We have been in Cascias now over two months. It is good to explore and we are enjoying the experience of living in a different place. We are meeting new and interesting people from all around the world. We have meet regularly with our Belgium friends and had games evenings including a new game to us Mancala a game with ancient roots. There are a number… Read More

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