<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/532/iansuejul12" rel="attachment wp-att-533"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-533" title="Ian&amp;Sue(Jul12)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IanSueJul12.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>Our friends, Ian and Sue, who live outside Brisbane, Australia have been on a long tour from China, through Mongolia to Russia and then Germany before coming to stay with us for two weeks. They used us as a base to see their friends and relatives and to enjoy some of the more touristy places and events that we take for granted.

We managed to get out with them on several occasions despite their gruelling itinerary and <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/532/marblewhitejul12" rel="attachment wp-att-537"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-537" title="marble white" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/marblewhitejul12.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>of course Jane working several days a week. They are both fanatical about wildlife and spent several days looking for butterflies in their old haunts around the county however the cold start to the year and the wet weather for most of the spring meant that even in the last few days when it has been very warm there were not many butterflies around. We took a stroll across the meadow down by the lakes and there were butterflies in profusion so it was a good end to their stay.