Europe fun on videocall

Last time Leen and me had a videocall she came up with a good idea. Remember the staff in the Europe House, London had given me some EU goodies for my family link up project.  Leen has a copy of this laminated map of Europe and EU country members with flags. I have a copy too so she said, "lets play a game of finding a country!" So there we were she in Oostende and me in Hayes West London playing this game. We took turns in asking the other where is Portugal? where is Austria? etc.  She was good and at one point was asking me to find the Orkney Isles!! so that took us on a conversation of Scotland and the surrounding islands.

When she struggled to find a country I challenged her with ....I would help her by getting her North South West East compass bearings from her locality. The last visit where I took a compass remembered by her.

Then we looked at flags and tested one another on which flag belonged to which country! It was good fun.  We don't get to call one another as often as before and I miss our fun games online ...but I miss visiting too.  This year with the high cost of living here in the UK I will not be able to go till maybe later in the year.  I keep also looking out for a package holiday with a hotel and swimming pool as it would be fun for the girls to visit there and enjoy the pool and jacuzzi and  Bushra if we can tempt her to get confident in the water! So glad that both Leen and Celine are getting swimming lessons at school now ..so important for sport fun and safety...