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Hello all,you mat or not know that after 40 years searching all over the world,I finally found my older brother in Belgium.

Well,tomorrow I am sailing on the overnight ferry to Zebrugge to surprise him on his birthday. His children have conspired with me to keep it quiet and are picking me up at the ferry terminal Saturday morning.

I made him a lovely colourful patchwork quilt for him to use at siesta time,as sadly he is currently undergoing aggresive treatment for bowel cancer,which insidently,is what spurred me on to visit at last.

Please wish me luck,I have never travelled so far all on my own and am
a tad nervous.

Will update you all next week when I return. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hi Annina,

Hope all goes well with your visit, Its good that your Brothers Children are picking you up. It should make things easier for your journey.

Have a wonderful time

Teresa :-D

Wish you all the luck in the world. Travel is not easy when going alone so it will be a bit of an adventure with a happy ending when you arrive. Have a safe journey and hope your surprise visit gives your brother a feel good factor at this difficult time for him. Enjoy your time together with his family. -jl

Hi Annina
I wish you all the luck in the world and your brother will love your quilt ,i know i did i still have it on my cushion i but you cant wait to meet him more so now he is ill ,take care my friend how is John
Love Dutchxx

Good luck Annina, hope you have a good and safe journey. I'm sure that your brother will love the patchwork quilt you have made for him, especially if it's as nice ( which I'm sure it is ) as the cushion cover
you made for Joyce.


Enjoy your time spent with him and his family. Take care of yourself.

Best Wishes.


Love, Sallie.xx

How lovely :-D

It is a shame the visit will be tinged with a bit of sadness because of his illness. Let's hope seeing you again will brighten his life and make him more positive to find his illness.

Good luck and have fun. Takes lots of tissues with you ;-)

Hello Dutch long time no see. We are both plodding as usual getting older and creakier,still acquiring stray cats,foxes and badgers,they cost us a fortune.

See you all Wednesday if I havn't drowned !!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

What a special surprise for him. I hope all goes well with your visit.

Safe journey.

Gwyn

How lovely Annina.

I hope you all have a wondeful time. :-)

Annina...that is wonderful news, how exciting. Will this be the first time you have met him in all those years:))

Take care and enjoy.
Hope it makes him feel better too

Jude xx ;-)

All good wishes - Liz

Hope that it all goes well. A lovely chance for you both to see each other smile (and with good reason). I guess that there will be tears as well. So go prepared with plenty of tissues.

Great that you have been helped by your brothers children. this will be a special time for them too.

Thinking of you all,

Tess :-) :-) :-)

Annina

dont wurry about being on your own just go and have agood time

wish you all the luck in the world

xxx

It will be the first time ever seeing my big brother. I didn't know of his existence until I was 21,the product of my fathers short lived marriage.

As my Dad wouldn't talk about him I have been stabbing in the dark for 40 yrs.

Once or twice I have thought that I had found him,only to learn that he had once again,gone to live in another country.

I have been paper trailing him from Belgium,Canada,Greece and back to Belgium where he now lives. Managed to locate him just before he moved country again.

When I finally traced him He didn't have any idea that he had two sisters and another brother,poor soul was a little shell shocked when I first got in touch,but now he is like a dog with two tails,as he was brought up an only child.

Thanks all for your interest,now I really should go and pack.

I hope it all goes well for you....

Jules x :-D

awww how fantastic good luck xx

thats lovely news and more .......good luck.x

I find this quite touching. Good luck Annina!!!

Wishing you all the best,
hope everything goes ok, xx

Best of luck Annina, have a wonderful time meeting your 'new' relatives, I am sure your brother will love his quilt and it might become a family heirloom too.

Happy travelling.

Lizxx