Aunty Biscuit is back in England and is having the rest of her holiday in Gosport teaching Aunty Viv how to decipher crochet patterns.  It would appear that the journey home was long but ok. Somewhere between Austria and Belgium, possibly in Germany, they had a lunchtime stop at an inn that had a coypu family living behind it.  Aunty Biscuit took a couple of photos of one to send to us as we'd never seen one.  

It looks like a bit like a cross between a beaver and an otter, and from the photos I deduce it has magnificent whiskers and its staple diet seems to be chips (without ketchup).  A check on woofapedia confirms they are vegetarians.