Happy birthday, Dad!
Monday, June 27, 2016
The weather has finally picked up a bit - just in time to wish you a very happy birthday!

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![]() | Posted by Danica Scott at 17:26 |
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The weather has finally picked up a bit - just in time to wish you a very happy birthday!

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![]() | Posted by Danica Scott at 17:26 |
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Having added some media queries to make the site more mobile friendly, it very quickly came to my attention that the fancy new gallery was not mobile friendly. After a quick google I found the the same question had been published on stackoverflow.
All that was required was copying the following into the _setDimenion function
$(F.outer).on('swipeleft', function() {
F.next();
});
$(F.outer).on('swiperight', function() {
F.prev();
});
and then the following two JQuery plugins need to be included in your code
plugins.jquery.com/event.move/
plugins.jquery.com/event.swipe/
Simple!
It looks like the new fancybox 3 beta version natively supports swipe - but hey ho!
Where to begin . . . . we are now in France, Strasbourg to be precise close to the German border, it seems very nice so far although we have sadly spent much of the day indoors due to some bad weather, I guess the rain had to catch up with us eventually. You're going to have to bear with me as this keyboard is a bit hazadous to get on with as these French types have cleverly re-arranged all the keys making it an uphill struggle to type anything remotely coherent - phew.
Over the last few weeks it's been a bit of a nightmare to add any updates as the tinternet has been rather expensive and time has become a little pressed. Over the last few days we have tried to catch up a bit and have added some much more recent photos, so if you haven't checked back in a while you should find lots of new albums from Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Heidelberg and Interlaken.
We've been having a fantastic time and on the whole the weather has been fantastic too, although we have been caught out a couple of times - particularly in Heidelberg when we got caught half way back from, the castle and ended up seeking shelter in a random portaloo we stumbled across whilst running for cover (much to some onlookers amusement).
Talking of Heidelberg we must thank Horst and Petra again for inviting us to stay in their very nice house, not to mention all the food and local beer. It was really great to see you both and Lena and hopefully we'll see you again soon! Whilst I'm doing thankyous I should also say thanks to Lowe Alpine for my shiny new bag - for those that didn't know mine broke and was being held together by some crafty stitching by Dani since Vienna!
Right I really better tie this up, enjoy all the new photo's. We've tried to include a few more of us for all the people that complain there aren't enough - although why you would want to look at our, ok my ugly mug is beyond me. Right everyone, Cheerio ta ta, Much Love as always - PS I hope Di, Mel, Kim and whoever else was going enjoy(ed / s) the Hen party in Paris, don't wreck the place before I've seen it xxx
Hello one and all contrary to popular belief we are still alive and well. Sorry about the long pause in updates, tinternet access has been a bit of an issue so we've only popped on a couple of times to check email and book hostels. I'm afraid this is only a short one as we have to go out and get breakfast and get on with the day. We'll see if we can get some pictures and what not uploaded soon, but these computers appear to be locked down so might be a little while yet. For those that have lost our progress, we are now in Berlin, Germany having been to Solvorn in northern Norway, Oslo (again) and Copenhagen, Denmark since the last blog! Hope everyone is well, cheerio ta ta for now! xx
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