From: "the hardparcels" <hardparcel@pmail.com
To: <friendslist>
Sent: January 24nd  12:19 PM
Subject: Wondering where to go

Dear friends,

We are already wondering where to go for holidays this year, as last year’s were exciting, but perhaps a teeny bit TOO exciting with the strafing and the ‘hostage situation’, as the foreign office called it. And we are certainly not going back to Thailand after what happened last time. The beaches were, true to say, absolutely beautiful and cleaner than a baby’s bottom, apart from the drunk Germans, but turned quite disgusting after the terrible tidal wave. We lost both cameras, all our suitcases and Keith’s shorts and had to live on nothing but coconuts for three days. It was quite dreadful and Terry wrote a very strong letter to the travel agency. Poor Keith has been frightened of water ever since and is rather difficult about his baths.

So we are thinking about somewhere more European this year. Has anyone been to Bulgaria or Romania? We‘re eager to hear your ideas!

Love from Angela (H)