D DAY
After exactly 361 days (and a few less for the rest of the family) it has finally come to this. Our life is packed into 5 suitcases plus an assortment of hand luggage as we prepare to say goodbye for the last time to Weymouth. I hope you have all enjoyed my little rants and stories and got a sense of the fun, agony, excitement, challenges and life changing experiences we have all had.
There is only the final chapter to write as we head off for our last journey. It begins with an overnight stop in Gatwick before heading to Austria and the snow fields of Innsbruck for a white Christmas. Then a train trip over the mountains to Venice. From here we continue on the train to Rome to watch the New Year in. Then (don’t ask why) a flight backwards to Barcellona to visit Manuel’s relatives. From here back to Rome then straight on to Athens for a kebab. Finally on to the pyramids then a rest (!!!!) for 7 nights in Luxor. Finally BACK (again don’t ask why) to Heathrow for a night before our trip home.
(http://careysadventure.blogspot.com/2007/10/maps-of-our-travels.html).
For those that don’t know, Kathy is flying back with the kids on Virgin Atlantic and I am flying 5 minutes later on Singapore Airlines - yes I can hear you all screaming “YOU BASTARD HOW COULD YOU!” Now I could spend the entire rest of this blog giving you the very legitimate reasons why, but like a pig going to the slaughterhouse squealing all the way, I know I don’t have a chance. Lets just say I now have an entire life time to repay my debts.
With 31 days of either amazing experiences or psychotic hell ahead of us we should both be arriving back in Sydney on the 24th January at 7am in the morning. It is likely that either the kids have driven us to check in at the nearest rehab centre or we are just having a great time so it may not be possible to make time to get to an internet café to keep you posted with what is going on.
“So as they set of into the sunset, what lay ahead of them was unknown. Will Luxor be a translation for laxative as one of us succumbs to a rapid loss of bodily fluids in Egypt? Will our Italian translation of ‘cheap accommodation’ in Rome turn out to be ‘Bordello’? Will our luggage enjoy a great holiday – IN BARBADOS!?
to be continued..............................
There is only the final chapter to write as we head off for our last journey. It begins with an overnight stop in Gatwick before heading to Austria and the snow fields of Innsbruck for a white Christmas. Then a train trip over the mountains to Venice. From here we continue on the train to Rome to watch the New Year in. Then (don’t ask why) a flight backwards to Barcellona to visit Manuel’s relatives. From here back to Rome then straight on to Athens for a kebab. Finally on to the pyramids then a rest (!!!!) for 7 nights in Luxor. Finally BACK (again don’t ask why) to Heathrow for a night before our trip home.
(http://careysadventure.blogspot.com/2007/10/maps-of-our-travels.html).
For those that don’t know, Kathy is flying back with the kids on Virgin Atlantic and I am flying 5 minutes later on Singapore Airlines - yes I can hear you all screaming “YOU BASTARD HOW COULD YOU!” Now I could spend the entire rest of this blog giving you the very legitimate reasons why, but like a pig going to the slaughterhouse squealing all the way, I know I don’t have a chance. Lets just say I now have an entire life time to repay my debts.
With 31 days of either amazing experiences or psychotic hell ahead of us we should both be arriving back in Sydney on the 24th January at 7am in the morning. It is likely that either the kids have driven us to check in at the nearest rehab centre or we are just having a great time so it may not be possible to make time to get to an internet café to keep you posted with what is going on.
“So as they set of into the sunset, what lay ahead of them was unknown. Will Luxor be a translation for laxative as one of us succumbs to a rapid loss of bodily fluids in Egypt? Will our Italian translation of ‘cheap accommodation’ in Rome turn out to be ‘Bordello’? Will our luggage enjoy a great holiday – IN BARBADOS!?
to be continued..............................
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