2. Bon Voyage

The last couple of weeks has been spent saying farewell to family and friends.  We have had many cards and messages of good wishes, meals, drinks and cakes.

  Thank you to everyone. We are really touched by your messages.  Last night we said goodbye to Nikki, Chris, Emily and Douglas. It’ll seem odd not to see them for a while but we can keep in touch by text, e-mail and skype.  Emily drew a picture for us to take with us.  We’ll photograph it a various locations on our travels.

We have a world map that Syd uses to display his pin collection. One for each place we have visited.

This shows the map prior to this trip.  How many more pins by the time we come home?  These pins seem to be rather expensive maybe he should collect something cheaper! (like dairylea triangle stickers Dave)!!

 It all still seems a bit surreal but the day of departure has finally arrived. 

Raymond and Ann took us to the airport – just to make sure we actually went!!

Goodbye winter

Bring on the travels

We flew down to Heathrow.  We were in good company on the flight.  Camilla Parker Bowles - Prince Charles’ wife was in the front row (my claim to fame, I sat on the same toilet as Camilla) and Steve who works for Bank of Scotland at the University was travelling to Heathrow en route to Barcelona.  You can’t go anywhere without knowing someone.  Wonder if I’ll be saying the same in a few weeks?

Tomorrow the real trip begins with a 13 hour flight to Singapore.