Evening all. To the left you can see how I am spending my evening and, yes, that tankard is plastic. After all, you can take a man camping, but you cannot and will not deny him the pleasure of ale with a handle. Obviously the Boddies is a bit basic, but shops are scarce and I love it, so hey.
Currently we are fortunate enough to be on a campsite with wi-fi and so I am consequently able to (in a truly amazingly coincidental feat of planning...) watch City take on Schteve McLaren in the UEFA Cup, post on here for once AND hopefully join the midnight crew later on. Deep deep joy.
Just out of shot on the picture (by dint of it's being sound and, therefore, unphotographable) is our current soundtrack - the marvellous CDs donated to the cause by Shane, the immense travelling music that is Creedence (cheers TFD) and the very bizarre, squelch-filled new Mercury Rev. Trucking is good, thus far.
So, briefly, to update things: having spent more than we wanted to on fixing stuff and having spent longer than planned waiting for the arrival of a gorgeous new niece, Iris (Breeders, not Goo Goo Dolls, apparently), yesterday was our first night of independence on a site proper. I am writing this from Canterbury where we have spent two days shopping, touristing, waiting for the van to be fully fixed and marvelling at the English tourist experience. Which, in these parts, is very nice indeed, ta. Good pies.
Tomorrow is Whitstable for fish and chips, the weekend is back to Rochester to help out the nieces, then monday is Dover, Dunkirque and beyond. For about 10 days or so we plan to try and do a bit of Belgium and Holland, ending up at my mate's in Maastricht. At the risk of this turning into some crazy kind of Dice Man scenario, anyone got any suggestions for things to eat/see/try/drink/do?
As ever, ta.
