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Pie envy, pie face; Skoma Island, Wales
Pie envy, pie face; Skoma Island, Wales

Pie envy, pie face; Skoma Island, Wales

There’s a moral to this story; don’t envy someone else’s lunch, no matter how yummy the aroma. I made this mistake. While walking on a rocky path and eating my own sandwich, I was scanning the other picnickers to see whose lunch smelled yummier than mine. I tripped, fell and twisted my ankle. You can laugh….

Camping, Cooking and Cursing in a thunderstorm in Paris
Camping, Cooking and Cursing in a thunderstorm in Paris

Camping, Cooking and Cursing in a thunderstorm in Paris

In the 1970’s, one of the cheapest ways to see Europe was to go on a camping tour. We chose Autotours and our first night in Paris turned out to be a disaster. We were the cooks and had to try and fry suspect ‘chops’ in a leaking tent, and then discovered out tent had leaked too. Funny in retrospect!