After a restless and slightly moist night ( no sexual undertone in that sentence intended) We awoke to a sound of farm life. Tanya was in the kitchen preparing meat and cheese for breakfast having already milked the goats, fed the chickens and the pigs and cleaned up after our arrival yesterday! It was 7.30am and the kids were excited to explore! The biggest joy of the farm is the innocent fun that can be found. From chickens to feed, to buckets and spades in t...

The phrase "we're not in Kansas anymore" is so far removed from Belarus than Lenin belongs in the docklands of London but it is one phrase that has cropped up so many times in my first few days of this Belarusian family adventure. It has been several years since I last visited this former soviet state and things have been pushed forwards to make Belarus a lot more western and visitor friendly, certainly by the initial greeting that welcome us. Recalling the last ...