Europe Africa. UK travel. Nearly all of our family summer holidays with the children have involved camping around Europe. I'll sort them later and select the best bits! We were accompanied by Joy's step-cousin Stephen Maw who worked as a hospital registrar, but died quite young from a heart attack and wife Becky. We turned the second row of comfortable seats round to face backwards.
There were no seat belts in those days, we thought that facing backwards would be safer, but the kids always kneeled up to look forward so probably weren't safe. There were inward facing wooden seats at the back. We had a deluxe ferry overnight from Harwich Olsen line 4-berth luxury cabin plus a 2-berth economy, we were late booking, it was the only cabin left; we all sat in the luxury cabin and ordered free drinks to Kristiansand southern tip of Norway.
Driving up through Norway we saw a moose, Rory decided to count moose but it was the only one we saw. It was a very rough road made of oil on gravel, all ruckled up at corners and junctions. We found a nice campsite at the head of a lake, lovely view but the water was freezing cold.
Then on to Oslo a huge site high above Oslo with excellent washing facilities; it was light till midnight. Half of Becky's bikini vanished from the washing line, the mind boggles. Unlike the similar conference two years ago, I was a "senior friend" this time, I had persuaded them to give me that honour so that my expenses were paid.
The conference included lectures by the famous Don Knuth proving things about grammars, he had started but never finished 10 volumes defining the whole of Computer Science, his lecture might start "Here's a theorem I thought up last night" or "I've disproved yesterday's theorem" , Tony Hoare proving things about program execution and Edsger Dijkstra.
