Well pastafreak that is a lovely birthday present!
But this trip will be more exciting because you will be reunited with your brother! I knows that feeling, gone through it when brother went missing for nearly 20 years . the story is too long to explain but when i found him, i was going back home myself after many years away to go back to found my roots again ,I knows that you understand that as well!
We met again, this shock me to this day, we were like little childrens all day holding hand in hand... We retraced the past; revisited the old primary school and sat at my old desk with the ink pot still in and the old house we used to live in.
The old proprieteur did let us see our old house and to our delights everything was left as we left it 38 years ago.
These moments are to cherish forever as we never experience those again. xxx