Welcome Home

Fri 23rd Jan

It is the early hours of the morning when we walk back up our garden path, feeling almost as we did when we left...as if we were away for a weekend! But is wasn't, we had been on a incredible adventure. Over the past six months we have driven Fay out to the Russian border and down to the Sahara, we have touched three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. Not to mention our little dalliance in Pakistan. For all of that time we have been each other's constant companions, never more than a couple of meters apart, we have each been to the other what ever the other needed. Together we have seen so much, done so much and learnt so much. We have had a ball!! Indeed, much of the homeward leg of our journey has been spent discussing "where next?" There are so many places still to go, places that we missed, places we want to return to and places we have yet to discover. Fay has been brilliant, any future modifications will be mere tweeks.

As we open the door, home feels warm, a dear friend has cleaned so no six month layer of dust! There on the kitchen table, a welcome home card, bottles of wine and beer, a bouquet of flowers, fruit and chocolates! It is not just the central heating that makes us feel warm, it is the special feeling of knowing we were missed and that friends and family are pleased we are back.

We make a cup of tea, then take it and one of the bars of chocolate to bed. Hmmm, the last time we slept in a double bed with crisp white sheets was in the hotel in Istanbul. Sleep comes easily and we dream the dreams of weary travellers...coming home wasn't so bad, after all.

We would like to thank everyone we met along the way. Each of you were a part of our adventure.


78083k mileage when we left home.
98343k mileage upon return home.
20260k distance Fay covered from 09.08.2014 - 23.01.2015