Around the World

An international flavour to my Talyllyn adventures today.  The two gents pictured here in the guard's van were both on their first day's volunteering on the railway.  Francesc on the left, my assistant guard, is from Catalonia.   Retired from his job on Spanish railways, he is involved in a railway museum at home but is here for a month now and will return again in late summer.  Ryo on the right is a student from Japan, studying in Brighton.  He's also involved with the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.  We all had a fun day but I missed out on a photograph including our loco cleaner this morning, Annette, who is from Holland!  She can be spotted in the background of the extra pic - a shot of an ecstatic Ryo photographing our loco 'Douglas' in the sheds after we finished work.  "Oh wow .... Oh wow"   Happiness is ......