Homeward bound

Yes that's right. After over 5 years in London David and I have decided to return home to New Zealand. It has been a hard decision - but the call of our families (plus kiwi outdoor lifestyle & scrummy food) proved too much. Our tickets are booked and we are now midway through the painful process of departing. There is a lot to organise - tenanting Turtle House, selling items, moving the rest across oceans, planning our holiday en route (the fun bit!), planning our March 06 wedding and then there is settling back into Auckland to think about. However we are well underway and starting to feel like most of this is in order.

Our travel plans have been laid with all flights now booked. We start off with 5 weeks camping through Cinque Terre in northern Italy, Southern France, along the Pyrenees & finally north western Spain. Then we fly back to London and on to Morocco for 2 weeks - No we are not camping there! We have been very lucky to meet, through a colleague at work, a Frenchman who owns a Riad (a traditional Morroccan house with an internal courtyard) in central Marrakesh which he and his brother have turned into a boutique hotel . He was horrified at the thought of camping - even though we were adamant that we wouldn't - and has kindly offered up all sorts of useful advice in terms of must sees and of course where to stay during our 2 weeks. After this we are back in London for just one night before departing via Singapore for home.

The blogsite will not be updated quite as frequently as you're used to during this travel, but we will certainly try and post the odd update along the way (the photos will have to wait until we arrive back home).

Oh when does this all take place? Well, our first adventure begins 11 Oct with flights to Genoa. Prior to this we expect to be moving out of Turtle House and into Chez Twilley (courtesy of Shaun & Kirsty) around 25 September. The date of landing in godzone is 8 December.

We look forward to many "leaving do's" in the short term, and "arriving do's" in the longer.