Sunday 18th April

Yesterday evening as we drove excitedly into Bran, we saw a sign that said Vampire camping, we trurned in, could this be a proper camp site? Yes - hot showers, washing machine and wifi - luxury!! Settled in went to bed 9.30.....woke up at 9.30.. we had slept a full 12 hours!!! The sun is shining and I heard a cricket singin;g, I love this time of year when they start singing, it means summer will soon be here.........Toni the man who runs this site, lives here with his wife, he speaks English and is very freindly and helpful....Lee asked him if we could use his address to send off for our Russian visas....(we couldn't do this before because the visas don't last very long and we would not have time to cross Russia before they ran out)..........He said yes and as he was going to town tomorrow he would see to the correct postage for us....So now we all have to wait and see --- visas should be issued between the 18-26th April, all we can do now is cross our fingers........---......After having showers and doing washing ect. we walked up to Castle Bran, it looks great, better and spookier than I had imagined, after seeing many pictures and talking about being here, it feels like a proper achievement to be here...it is 4pm and it closes at 6pm so we make the decision to go in tomorrow and not have to rush. All around the castle are stalls and all the usual touristy things, so we had a walk around and bought a couple of pizzzas and a beer and coke, then back to base camp......The sun is shining and I am sitting here in a T.shirt, we will be staying here for a while---great not to have to pack anything for a change......Lee is lying on the bench moaning that he hasn't got a beer and Beverley is on the computer drawing whilst listening to Harry Potter.....In the field with us are sheep and a couple of them have bells on, it's a very pleasant sound, they started to wander towards the gate, the shepherd gives one whistle and they run to him, just like well trained dogs, they have three lambs with them--ahh so cute.....7pm there is one other caravan on the site and the people are getting ready to leave.........Toni comes over and asks if we would like eggs and cheese from the shepherd/farmer, we ended up with 20 fresh eggs a whole homemade cheese and its huge, and delicious, and apples--£6.50, can't complain about that!! Looking at our table we notice we have ,obviously, cheese and eggs form Romania---cheese from Hungary--bread form Germany--veg oil from France--wine for Slavenia---margerine from Tesco England and chile oil from Thailand -the chile oil we actually brought in France and has travelled with us since we left and we will probably take it back to its home in Thailand........