it sounds wonderful. We have puppet shows here and I suspect they are very funny but they are in german and alas we dont understand the language!

Thabjs for all your thoughts, memories, responses. I have been looking at real estate sites. The council tax is a bit of a mystery and theagents seem to think everyoine knows what the hell it is. I suppose it is a tax we pay instead of the landlord and we pay it monthly??? so I should add council tax to monthly rent to do a budget? I think we can get something 1 bed for about 400-500 a month. I would love to live in a smaller town, have a garden joind a local vege garden allotment.

We wont have a car, unless we get a big bonus! So we may just get bikes. Everything seems so close. a couple of hours ride and we would be ain a new area.