Save the Wales

I hadn't driven a car for six months, but tomorrow I'm driving to another country. We plan to leave about 6.30am because it's always nice to be “overseas” by lunchtime... We've borrowed a car from friends Pip and Alex at Church, the selfsame pair who drove us to Leeds back at Easter. When they generously offered us one of their cars to use I tried to cancel the booking with the rental car company, only to discover they said they'd never received our booking. Might have been complicated had we only discovered it tonight! Anyway, we're going to Snowdonia as planned, staying in Llanberis for anyone who's interested. We'll be home on Tuesday night. Not expecting internet access there so will update probably on Wednesday. Have just realised that in contrast to Italy and Paris, we didn't think to pick up a Welsh phrasebook prior to our trip. Might rectify that one the way... suspect any attempt would be met with a good response there. The host of our B&B is a rugby fan who enthused that he'll have all the games on if we're interested. I can't think of a better time to visit Wales than during a World Cup.

Finally a note of congratulations to our housemate Nick for his new job, being one of the few, a Mac tech guy in an organisation surrounded mostly by PC weenies. Keep up the fight Nick!