The Raccoons in...                

...The Italian Job

   DAY 1

26th June 2008

Arrived bleary eyed but bushy tailed (in Clive's case) at Manchester Airport.  Had a lousy cup of tea, correction, tea bag which was accompanied by a paper cup full of hot water.  Fantastic.  Left Drunk Ted to his own devices (ie:  free to do as he pleased in Duty Free). 

But what's this??!!  Had we been drugged??!!  Could we believe our eyes??!!  No, quite clearly there were two badgers, snuffling for truffles (and buying suntan lotion and tequila) in Duty Free...

On the plane it gets worse....eating that mush they call 'breakfast'.  When who should keep running up and down but the two badgers, still snuffling for truffles, and throwing paper at us.  The bullys!!

Finally!!  Touch down!!  Landed in Venice!!  Italy, here we come!!

DAY 2

27th June

One must go to those irksome Welcome Meetings, to hear what's on offer at the resort.  Blah Blah Blah, recommend you do this, Blah Blah Blah, recommend you do that.  Blah Blah Blah, keep out of the sea in July, that's when the jelly fish arrive.....

Then there's a trip to the dark caves, where you can see the worlds only half human creatures, ie, some animal that isn't a human, but has human skin, lives in the dark and is blind....  Are they just talking about Vampires?!  Sounds scary! 

Back to our room to get over the nonsense we have just heard, and what do we see but those silly badgers on the balcony, sunburnt and drinking sangrea..... 

DAY 3

28th June

Today was our trip to Venice, I was excited for the sites and plenty of rubbish cans as Clive was for the designer clothes shops.  Drunk Ted??  He was in for any beer he could get.  Happened along a Gondola with no owner, so a raccoon did what a raccoons knows best, and stole it!!  Hey, it cant be any harder to control than a skateboard, can it??!!

Thought I could make some easy cash but giving them loved up idiot Badgers a Gondola ride....

Things were going well until....

I had a little run in with some Venetian architecture.

 Ow!!  That's gotta hurt!!

DAY 4

29th June

Today we paid our respects to Shakespeare, and visited Verona, home of the famous Romeo and Juliet....

DAY 5

30th June

At Lake Garda today. We loved it!! As soon as we ran into the Lake, everybody else ran out - we had the place to ourselves (and left the water a nasty shade of brown after, well; it's the first time we've bathed in a year!!)

That evening in the hotel restaurant we were served by a Vampire.  Maybe they brought Vampire Staff back from the trip to the dark caves today?  Also noticed a lot of the guests who were on that trip are suspiciously missing at tonight's meal time.  We have worked out that the tour operator is in cahoots with the Devil.  Awful glad that we decided to give that trip a miss, or would would have become of us?! Vampire Raccoons??!!  Whatever next??!!  Oh no, the waitress is coming back over...."Would you like a little something to drink?!  A drink for you and a drink for me?!  And maybe, a thimble full of blood for Eivenroe..."  Trill!!  We're scared!!  And I woke up with two weird bite (or puncture marks?!) on my neck.....

DAY 6

1st July

Thought we would have a beach day today. Got there, and all sorts was happening. Obviously, as it was the 1st July, the Jelly Fish were arriving.....

Jelly and Ice Cream - how silly!!                                                                                                                                                                       

But to ruin our fun on the beach, how mean!

And not just to ruin it for us, but our Good friend Mr Croc too.....                                 

Maybe Mr Croc can calm himself down by thinking of playing with his new toy Gondola, well he is very simple!!

DAY 7

2nd JULY

Home Time......

Sniff, the holidays are over, why do they have to go so fast!!  We've had some laughs and met new friends, roll on next years!!

The End

Diary extract by Louisa x

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