Homeward Bound

It was finally the day we were heading home, and after 9 and a half weeks of travelling, we were ready to go. With military precision, we got our luggage and children to Heathrow Aiport by 7.50am. Craig took back our rental car to the Europcar off-site and caught the shuttle bus back (eventually). Now…

Squirrels, pretty parks and friendly faces in London

After a very long day of travelling, I’d hoped that we’d manage a sleep in. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case and we all woke up early. We were also on central European time which was an hour later than London, until the next day when summer time started and it would be…

Long road to London

It was 17 hours from one bed to another on our trip from Copenhagen to London.

Mooching around Munich

This won’t be a very exciting post. We had 2 nights in Munich to drop off our rental car and pick up our friends Andy and Steph for our next leg to Split, Croatia. At this stage in the trip 6 weeks into our 9 week journey we were pretty tired. A little bit of…

The aftermath – Munich Part 1

It was such a relief to arrive in Munich. The stress levels reduced from fire hot to smouldering within seconds of meeting our dear friends Andy and Steph at the airport. After loading what we could into their Suzuki Swift, Craig and Andy set off for the train carrying our ski bag and 2 suitcases…