Forty two years ago Shane and I left Istanbul with a bag of puzzle rings a box of meerschaum pipes and a couple of quite 'interesting' embroidered goat fur coats. Today we spent a lot of time in the Grand Bazar and found one place selling puzzle rings (a lot of people puzzled when I asked them about the rings), one stall in the antiques area selling the pipes and no one selling those nasty flea bitten coats we loved for years. Guess things have changed ...

Leave it to Winston Churchill to let people know they can't make a statue of him if pigeons can land on his head.... So what did they do? They have him wired 24/7..... Yep, an electric current keeps them pests away!Now that has little to do with our trip but a a little trivia never hurt anyone.So here we are in London. It took us over 30 hours in transit flying Kelowna to Vancouver, overtop of Kelowna to Calgary....waiting 9 hours then hoping on the plane ...