Thursday, September 27, 2007

Just resting

The last couple of days have been rest days – mostly. Both of us were zonked when we got back from our tenting trip, more tired than we’d been for weeks. The tiredness had kind of crept up on us both, and we were both irritable, and just plain weary of traveling and erecting and de-erecting tents.

It’s nice to be back to a bit of normality at our ‘base camp’ and to have some people to talk to. In the campsites it’s been amazing how few people there have been who’ve stopped and talked, or showed any interest in us. Which means we’ve been thrown back on each other for all our resource: we both need other company as well as each other.

We’re now going to plan our train trip in the five European countries in more detail than we originally intended, because part of the problem with the tenting holiday was just not knowing where we might end up, and whether we’d have somewhere to stay. It meant that a certain side of the trip was unrelaxing, and almost unenjoyable.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well hello again from your home town - Dunners!!! Have been catching up on your latest outings.
All very interesting - as usual. You fellas are all over the where. No wonder you're both exhausted. I don't know where you find the energy to type up your blog each day.
Sounds like your gps is set up to avoid motorways, but I 'm sure you have all that sorted by now.
Er . . . this is in no way a criticism of any kind, just a question of someone with a brain MUCH larger than mine, but is "de-erect" a word?
Gotta go de-make a coffee. John P

Mike Crowl said...

The GPS isn't normally set up to avoid motorways, although the other day she put in an address of her own accord without consulting us in the slightest, and tried to take us somewhere we didn't want to go. I'm beginning to suspect that there's some kind of malware in Malvina!
Hope the de-making went well; though it's quite hard to imagine how you did it.

Anonymous said...

I poured it down my neck, and disassembled it my tummy.

Mike Crowl said...

It's amazing what you can do with modern science...