Staying with a lovely family tonight in Prague. They've been working on the streets with people for 18 years  – real people. 

Europe in some ways is like driving through American states; road trips are no big thing, the exception here being that each state or country has a language and culture all of its own determined by how much the place’s people have been shaped by either consumerism or communism.

On January 4th, Gaz Kishere and Steve Leach from the European Love146 prevention team set off on a 14 country trek through some of the coldest places in Eastern Europe to visit prevent

When Siobhan and I first lived in Cambodia there was an ice-cream factory just down the road from the slum where we were living. On one of the outside walls there was a painting of eight different types of ice-cream. When it is hot in Cambodia it gets really hot, so going past those pictures every day got you hungry to try them. Outside of the factory in the shops all we seemed to be able to buy were only two of the types of the ice-creams displayed so one day we spontaneously went to the factory itself to ask to try the other ones. The factory manager we met gave an embarrassed laugh and said that they hadn’t been developed yet but that we could try one of the two types they had…

Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to say thank you, but the words just seemed so lame in expressing the gratitude you felt? This is one of those times. I’m scrambling for the right words here.