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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name: Elizabeth Lena Akerman

age: 9

hair colour: brown

favourite colour: green

favourite pet: Teddy the Guinea Pig

favourite pop group: Girls Aloud

school: Willersey C of E Primary School

favourite book: Kiss by Jaqueline Wilson

Libby's blogs

Day 1

We are now near Lodeve (11/5/2009)

Hey everyone I am so tired and I can't wait to go to sleep

I hope every ones ok back in England I'm in France at my mum's auntie's house and to night I can sleep in a real bed. Because my aunty Joan has a swimming pool I just had to have a dip.

A few days ago I went on a day trip called Barcelona and it was very hot but we did see the Gaudi park aswell as the new cathedral it was stunning.

We have also seen bull running in a village that we visited, that was fun and a bit scary to I kept thinking the bulls might run in to me.

Love Libby

Its tough away from school (honestly) by Libby 30/04/09

Hi guys! How are you? You can tell me by sending and email to this address I am really tired but don't worry I am doing lots of hard work and I will be doing way more when we get to Spain

So far I've seen a whale, gone to the boat cinema, played in the Games Planet, slept in a cabin and written 3 postcards that I got on the boat. We've learnt about the curvature of the earth by looking at the horizon. The sea is flat so we could see that the horizon was a bit curved. The corridor on the boat is so long we could see the perspective really well. It was cool. Abi counted over 100 steps before she lost count and had to start again. There is a electonic map on the wall that tells us where the boat is. I am going to go and see how far to go before we get to Spain. See you later Alligator. Byeeeee

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