Well? Have you had enough Christmas greetings, enough Happy new years?
Seems to me this year we have had more than an abundance of them, and sadly I was as guilty of posting as the next person.
So let me wish you all the very best for 2017, if I've missed you!
2016 was a very interesting year for us three. I have to include Helga in everything because she is such a big part of our lives, and I make no apologies for that.
I learnt for the second time in as many years, that it's virtually impossible to do a road trip with people you don't know very well. I'm set in my ways, it's a privilege proffered to people with a certain amount of life experiences, and life has taught me not to accept fools gladly.
So, having had my new year rant, I think I owe it to my followers to have a little fore taste of what 2017 has in store for us.
Margaret still has commitments at home, in the form of her mother, and her daughterly duty to take the old girl shopping once a week. I, on the other hand have none, and want to spend more time on the continent, so a compromise has been reached.
I will take Helga over to Amsterdam, on my own, and from there go to Germany, for a lot of days, Poland, for another lot of days, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
When I get to Tallinn, about five or six weeks after Holland, Margaret will fly out to meet me. Seems to me it will be a bit like a scene from an old romantic comedy when we meet up at the airport.
We'll hang around Tallinn for a few more days, if the weather is good, and then slowly make our way back, spending time in Warsaw and Berlin before going to see the Kentish brigade and up through England, to home.
As usual, we'll be meeting up with fabulous new friends on our travels, taking millions of pics, and sampling all life has to offer.
Stay warm in the meantime, and we look forward to filling you in with all the details.
