Today I have had a bit of an amusing experience, we are on an American Airbase it's huge with Apache helicopters stationed here and hangers with god knows what in and it has it's very own American collage; home of the American football team the Ansbach Cougars!! When on base you are subject to American law and everything looks American from the cars to the shops, it's a bit bizarre. But the thing that got me the most was the collage, watching American high schoo...

After leaving on Wednesday we had a horrible drive to Ansbach, the rain was pelting down, fog was causing problems and loads of roadworks, but the worst thing over here is the lorries you have two lane autobahns and one lane was nose to tail with lorries for 400 miles and that's not an exaggeration. Anyway arrived at this very traditional German hotel called the windmill, it's a very strange hotel they are currently building a windmill outside, there is a stuffed...