Ffriday 11th may 2012 Manchester and England Val and I are awake early infact I doubt we got much sleep.Today we leave Pieter and Lyn in Ams terdam and fly to Manchester to stay with Vals cousin Pauline and husband Steve who live in High Lane in cheshire near Manchester.Up at 6am our taxi is to pick us up at 7.45 to take us to Schipol the airport, all ok taxi arrives we say by to Pieter and Lyn and uaway we go with our Suranim taxi driver whose name I cannot remember but he‘s lived in The Netherlands most of his life.After an interesting trip to the airport we find that its large and busy.In we go get in a couple of wrong ques people every where,security herding us like cattle. Eventually book our luggage in, whoops my bag is 20.4 kilo, now I‘ve been watching that Airport show on TV, you know the one about Ezyjet, This could be a problem. I‘m .4 kilo over weight here comes the extra charges, but no the girls really nice, I ask is my bag ok? she says yes why? I say I,ve been watching airport with Ezyjet she says oh thats just for TV an over reaction. Oh thankyou I say and off we go to boardimg happy as larry through security where you virtually have to undress,o onto the plane and away we go Manchester next stop. Pauline and Steve are at the airport to meet us, and even though I have never met them before, after the initial meeting I feel I have known them all my life. Val is pleased as punch to meet up with Pauline after 46 years, they take us to their home and we spend the rest of the day catching up on the past, family photo‘s and going for a walk Steve showed us his canal boat in whicoh he and Pauline have toured the canals over a large part of the canal system here. So after a large part of the journey is over we have had a happy family re~union. Saturday 12th May 2012. Today has been a day of getting to know one and other, a beautiful drive and walk through the Peak forrest area, which included lakes, forrest, and rolling hills with English country farmhpuses. Crackers the Eagle