Family and friends - feast and festivities in Munich July 27th 2011 Claire’s life long association with Munich has it’s roots from before she was born - when her parents hosted a Bavarian youth football team and Peter, Reinsche and Wolfgang came to stay – on subsequent visits the sight of “Germans” camping in the backgarden of a Birmingham suburb was not an every day occurance and plenty of 4 and 5 year old friends were ushered in to see them!
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Away in The Major
Five years and five weeks ago we wandered wide eyed into the Heathrow arrivals hall in the manner of Hugh Grant in “Love Actually”, direct from Lima and our year out in South America to be met by Simon’s Dad - seee all our previous blogs.
Bitten by the travel bug we had promised ourselves over numerous wine and steak dinners in the Southern Cone that life on the road was so good that we would aim for a “mini sabbatical” every 5 years or so to while away the ever increasing years until our retirements…
Needless to say with work and the arrival of twin boys... full info