Here we go!

We have just placed our Birmingham apartment with a rental agency-the first step towards moving to Spain for 18 months (actually step 37 in Mike's list-see above-but certainly the most significant so far.)

We also had out English weekend in Aldeburgh,Suffolk, thanks to Naomi and Martin who bought us this for a Christmas present. It's a part of England I have never visited before and it is lovely and quintessentially English-teashops and craft shops, pubs with real fires and even realer beer, little cottages (for little people-Mike spent the weekend walking round bent at the waist!)and fish and chips in large portions. We walked by the sea to see Maggie Hambling's wonderful sculpture (see link here-http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2004/11/08/scallop_aldeburgh_feature.shtml) and then followed the river through the mud flats and back into the village past the very English allotments. It is a good memory to take with us.