What an odd day it was yesterday. Not only\ndid it rain all day but I had to eat my meals at the back of the car in the\nHotel garage. Now I am not what you might call fussy about where I eat, but\nwhen you have to pick up the bits you drop off a concrete floor it tastes a bit\ndusty. It seems somewhat unfair when the master and mistress get to eat in a\nrestaurant with me sitting drooling at their feet. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We went for a drive round some fairly hairy\nroads but my mistress made an amazing discovery. If you drive round a mountain\nclockwise you stay close to the mountain and avoid the edge. Of course this\nonly works if you drive on the right hand side of the road, for those who still\ndrive on the left the principle needs to be reversed. There is still snow on\nthe hillside. How does that work? The temperature is much warmer than freezing,\nwhy hasn\u2019t it melted? I tried asking my mistress whether it freezes at a different\ntemperature here but she said that was not the answer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Actually I was enjoying finding out about his\ntrip so much that I think I\u2019ll tell you the rest of what he said that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have really enjoyed meeting lots of\nnew people. I always like it when people say \u2018Oh isn\u2019t he lovely\u2019. At least I\nam interpreting that as being the translation of what they are saying, there\nseems to a small language hurdle that we are failing to overcome. At least in\nBelgium a lot of people speak English, which for the most part gives my\nmistress a fighting chance of understanding, on her good days anyway! Bless her\nat the service stations we stopped at on the way here she got so confused as to\nwhat language to try and speak in which country that I don\u2019t think she made a\nlot of sense to anyone anywhere. She even had difficulty being understood when\nshe only wanted to order some fries and some coffee and I thought they were\nfairly universal. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing I am finding odd is that there are\nducks everywhere and they don\u2019t play fair. There is only so far I can pull away\nfrom my mistress when I am on the lead so I have to play it calmly. I walk\nquietly by her side so she relaxes her hold and then when she isn\u2019t expecting\nit I pull as hard as I can in the direction of chasing the ducks. So far they\nhave outwitted me. They sit still until the last minute then waddle a couple of\npaces and fly off. How am I supposed to catch them like that? I wanted to go\ninto the water after them for some reason that escapes me my mistress didn\u2019t\nseem to think that following me was such a good idea. If only I could give her\nthe slip.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s funny for me reading that, because that\u2019s\nthe lake I sit next to with Mum and where we walk. The one she dropped her shopping\nlist in. There is something lovely for me connecting with puppy Alfie and not\njust seeing him as the old dog he is now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that\u2019s all for now<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have a great Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Language barrier<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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