101 Uses For a Campervan #10; Portable Hydrogen Sulphide production unit. Simply leave your waste water unemptied for 10 days, then stir vigorously by driving along winding mountain roads. Initial concern that Chloe's nappy has leaked will give way to conviction that farmyard aromas are responsible, then disbelief as the smell of rotting eggs is finally traced to the kitchen unit of your wheeled abode.
Things that don't happen at home #6: Ones toiletry bag does not, as a rule, upend itself into foot washing facilities used by foreign sorts to scrub their sock and sandal clad, corn festooned, yellow nailed feet.
Two castles today, Predjama and Sneznik. The former is a pared down impregnable fortress, partially built into a cliff face with a starkly functional interior including torture chamber and an ingenious water gathering wheeze using the water dripping of stalictites to replenish supplies without external dependencies. The latter is a slightly prissy stately home and was a weekend retreat for German princes before Tito saw sense and nationalised it.
There was a contrast of styles in our children's demeanor as well. Maddie and Chloe marched stoically around the functional fortress of Predjama, but the opulence of Sneznik seemed to bring out the latent indulged princess part of their characters. Or I might be overanalysing it and the Peppa Pig play they were enacting loudly over all four floors of a guided tour was merely a distraction from a tedious non icecream based activity.
Things you wish you hadn't found out about your wife #4: She contributed one purchased unit towards the interminable stay at #1 on the Official UK Charts of Bryan Adams' power ballad dirge (Everything I Do) I Do It For You.
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