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'It has to be progress........'

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I see that it's more than a month since my last blog post. Since then we've had a lovely foreign holiday in Austria,near Salzburg. I was delighted by the beautiful scenery and buildings and welcomed the opportunity to explore...some of the flat bits!. The sense of culture and also stability was perhaps a little misleading, given the closely fought Presidential election going on nationally in Austria at that time. I even had a lengthy and enlightening chat with a Bavarian family about their experience of learning English in Germany and the so called Brexit vote looming in GB. The views surprised me. All in all, a complete change and a bit of an escape, too. I look forward to returning ; I aim to improve my German before then, although we had no problems with our efforts at conversation and which were always appreciated locally! Strobl , Austria. My photo was taken early one morning. Back in the UK, I continue to volunteer in a local school. I am enjoying it very m...