The Akermen Family European Tour Scrapbook

Charlie AkermanCharlie 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 StranksLena 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 AkermanBear is just a freeloader along for the ride and the icecream Nick AkermanDont 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 Abigail AkermanAbi 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 AkermanLibby 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!

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Homes

As we travel Charlie will be on a special look-out for different styles of homes in the different places we visit. They will (we hope) be all different colours, shapes and sizes.

So Watch this space!!!

This house in Filzmoos, Austria has bones over the door


This house in Venice is very small


The houses in Venice often had shutters


This is a lovely house in Venice. I took this photo from a bus, which in Venice is a boat


Today we saw a nice house that had been painted to look different from how it really was.


This house was in the centre of Lodeve. It reminded us of the house we lived in in Cheltenham when I was a baby


Today I went on a little trip to a village in the mountains near Lodeve and I found this nice house


This is me with my cousin Tim and his partner Karina. They gave us breakfast in Portmouth before we set off in their flat


This is a picture of the lockkeepers house that we saw by the side of a canal in southern France. The lockkeeper had to work the lock which helps move boats up or down a step in the river.


This is a house in Barcelona designed by Gaudi. He also designed the cathedral which is still being built today.


This home is a bit snazzy! It was built 600 years ago for the King and Queen of Navarra


In Bilbao there were lots of homes that were all the same.


Lots of Spanish houses are colourful.


The people who live in flats often dry their clothes out of the window


This house is built out of the local rocks.


This home looks very old. I like the all the things on the wall.


We found this hut when we climbed a mountain. Mum thinks that it may have been the home of a shepherd or something


We liked the decoration on this house