A week on Saturday, Angela and I take the ferry from North Shields to Amsterdam to launch what will be a 5-week extravaganza with Felix in Europe.
We’ll spend the first two weeks in Strasbourg, Lauterbrunnen, Annecy and Geneva, at which point Katherine and Rachel will fly across for a couple of nights.
Then I’ll have two weeks on my own (with Felix for company) with no firm plans yet.
The final week will see me picking up Angela from Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris, to embark on a World War One tour then on to Bruges and Ghent then back home to reality.