Surrey To Say Goodbye

Travelled this trip:

Days: 279

Towns / Cities Visited: 182

Countries Visited: 30

Steps Taken Around the World: 4,430,255

This shan’t be a standard blog, I’m afraid. I do not have grand tales of traversing foreign lands and seeing wild and wonderful things to share. Alas, I am here to share some final thoughts. The remaining five weeks of our trip were spent rather routinely, our days filled largely with trying to shift some of the backlog of blogs we still had to write, editing our 400+ page novel, arguing over said novel, and trying to shed some of the shameful number of kilos we had put on over the past nine months. That’s not to say there weren’t a few highlights to brighten the time though.

We had the opportunity to spend our first Christmas not only away from Australian soil, but in colder climes. This also marked the first Christmas we were actually able to spend the day together, with me having had to work the previous years. To make it even more special, Tony and Lisa’s son James and his partner Annaliese invited us to celebrate with them all; a kind gesture we were hugely grateful for. This celebration saw us welcomed with gifts from not only Annaliese’s parents but her grandparents too, along with the usual massive waves of food. I, for my own part, added to the feast with my own addition of homemade gingerbread and chocolate truffles.