5 sleeps to go...


One week to go.... Rhonda getting very jumpy, me less so. Our housesitter is raring to go, dams and tanks are full, it's 27˚ in Paris: Bring it on!!

This was our practice holiday at Lorne, very much like the Riviera!

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