Charlie is the youngest of the team, but can pull her own weight with camp-kitchen chores. She can grate cheese competently but always likes to have a bit to check it's ok. Around the camp fire she will entertain with her very own version of Santa Baby, and is a keen air-guitarist
Lena aka Mum is the tours chef, route planner, photographer and geologist. It all sounds quite grand but it really just means she did rocks at university once, can make an omelette and knows that if the sun is on your left you are most likely heading west(ish). She is wonderful in many ways, hem hem and edits the website
Bear is just a freeloader along for the ride and the icecream
Dont be confused by the sombre look, Nick is actually genuinely grumpy. He is with the trip for 4 weeks out of 7 as he had to pop back and do some work for a bit in the middle. He is chief campfire entertainer with his guitar and singing. He is also the main driver and in charge of interpretting navigational instructions from Lena. As if that is not enough he will be lifeguard at the seaside, and helping bear with his icecreams
Abi is the team artist and ballerina. She will be looking to document the trip on her own felt-tip version of the bayeaux tapestry. Her speciality in camp-kitchen is "Gods Own Mash" but she will hopefully get to experiment with local ingredients on her nights cooking tea.
Libby is the eldest of the youngsters on the trip and so will no doubt be keen to stay up after all the others and watch the telly....ah there is no telly. Fortunately Libby has other means of entertaining us and herself as she is able to sing all of the three HSM soundtracks and the Sound of Music from memory. She will no-doubt be persuaded to join in with Nick singing even though he has a penchant for 70s tracks and Elton John. Shes nice like that!name: Charlotte Nora Akerman
age: 5
hair colour: blonde
favourite colour: turquoise
favourite pet: Basil and Grim
favourite pop group: Abba
school: Willersey C of E Primary School
favourite book: Charlie and Lola, My little library
We were watching out of the window and we saw some whales and we saw some ships.
It was fun in the cabin and I liked it. Everyone had their own light and we played a lot
Maggie's mum had packed us a lovely breakfast. I like chocolate croissants the best
Soon we are going to be in Spain. We are going to go camping. We are not cycling because we didnt bring the bike
love from Charlie