Tomorrow we fly to England (via Amsterdam) for a 2 month "break". We have been tidying, cleaning and packing and all of us feel a bit apprehensive. We have spent nearly 2 years living in an international community in a slum in Belo horizonte, Brazil and that will have affected us, so how we will see England now is an unknown thing.

Anyway.....last weekend I (Dave) climbed up the local mountain for the last time to guide a bunch of volunteers and see some of the local nature, and we came across this snake:
It was quite thin but very long. I have not done any research on it so do not know if it is poisonous but it looked beautiful and just slithered away when we saw it.