I’ve never been into a radio station before but today we went into the mighty BBC Radio Stoke studios in Hanley and were interviewed by Perry. My perfectly reasonable demands for a trailer and my own body-weight of rose petals was, sadly, unforthcoming – but we did get to have our photos taken in a real live studio.

And, not only that – but we are going to be a regular “feature” for the year – with monthly updates from wherever we happen to be in the world. It’s something we’ll have to work on methinks – as, unaware of how it might all go we walked into things a bit like a rabbit might walk towards a couple of bright headlights….. (As soon as the show was over we thought of all the things we wanted to say – but he wouldn’t open the door when we ran back shouting “ask this, ask this!”) We’ll know for next time.

We took our bags in – the bags we’re traveling with – also known as “our only luggage”. Ella’s little backpack and my “certain to get me stopped at every check-point dodgy looking black hold all”.

Here’s the bags’ first photo-shoot.