Mayday Mayday

The more keen-eyed amongst you will have noticed something that says "Schwarzwald" underneath the outline of Corsica on the right-hand side column, and a number, ominously and inexorably counting down to our departure date towards the end of June.

We've been meaning to go see the Black Forest for ages but our plans were thwarted first by injury, then by new family commitments, so this year we thought we'd finally make it. Alas, it's looking increasingly likely that we'll have to add "new job commitments" to the list of impediments stopping us from reaching our intended destination.

The first time around, we remedied by going to Abruzzo and it turned out to be a great trip. So, since we want to have all four of us for the Schwarzwald trip, we're going to do a Schwarzbruzzo 2 instead this year, for the three of us that are going.

I think we'll more or less follow this route: