Homeward Bound

Well, we've almost come to the end of our travels for this time. It's bed time in London, ready for a wake up at 3:15 am tomorrow to be ready for the transfer to the airport for our flight to Dubai where we have 2 nights before arriving in Sydney at 6:05 am on Thursday. It's been a really great holiday, not at all restful, but very interesting. I'll make another entry from Dubai (no early wake up call there!).

Home is looking very attractive, particularly things like bed, pillow, shower, washing machine (I never thought I would look forward to using the washing machine) and so on. I'm looking forward to telling you all about it, and showing the photos in print form after I've been able to do a bit of sorting and deleting!

Bye from London.

Plymouth Friday 5 September

It's a whole week since I put anything up here. It's been very hectic, full of early starts and long days with not many minutes for blogging! It has also been raining every day - yes, every day - and we're looking forward to some sunshine.

It's hard to realise that we've nearly finished our holiday and will be home in less than a week. It has been a very enjoyable time, very busy too - as someone said, it's hard work being a tourist. We've been really lucky to have been with very good groups on the tours, with excellent tour directors and drivers who have done much more than their job descriptions require to make everything go smoothly.

All the photos have grey skies, except one or two that I took to prove that the sun did shine even if it was briefly!

I'll try to put some more up tomorrow if time permits, and will add again in Dubai if possible and finish off when we arrive home.