England seems so far away as we sit and write this update in the mountains of Montenegro. We have the windows open and are listening to the thunderstorm which is sweeping through the valley leaving streams descending the steep sides all around us to the swollen river just behind the hotel we are staying in. [...]

It is really hard to know what to write as we sit here in Rixheim about 20 kilometres from the Swiss border on day 14. Our heads are full of images and experiences already and we are having problems disentangling them into something coherent for people to read. So forgive us as we stumble through [...]