Have been on holiday for 10 days now and popped over to Bruges last week for a couple of days. I always take a large group of pupils from school there every December to the Christmas market and have wanted to go back -without the children- for ages. So we booked the ferry from Hull overnight to Zeebrugge and spent two days exploring the parts of Bruges I had never seen. That's me in the photo outside the oldest pub in the town; Café Vlissinghe. It was a nice break, although the weather wasn't the best; we came home to snow and a reminder just how early western Easter is this year. It's not Orthodox Easter for another month so we couldn't get out to Symi this year for the celebrations, but to compensate, have booked flights for May half-term! We've never been at that time of year before so are looking forward to seeing the island in early season; will certainly be doing some walking. Will be nice to see how our house in Chorio, the Lemon Tree is doing and how the extension is coming along. This is how it looked last week; maybe should have waited before buying the microwave!

Plenty of work to do before that though; it's eight weeks until half-term and have speaking tests, coursework moderation etc. to go through and against my better judgement I'm marking the AQA German speaking tests again this year. Hell on earth but it pays for things like flights to Greece in May, maybe even to Moscow this year; fingers crossed!