After arriving in Heathrow on Thursday evening we stayed in the yotel there overnight, before getting a coach down to Gatwick on Friday morning. We then hung around there for a few hours, getting something for lunch, before getting on a plane for the final time of the trip to get back home to Guernsey. The flight was great - really clear skies so we had a great view of all the islands as we finally came home. So that's it - after 268 days (including one day that ...

On our last day in New York we checked out of our hostel and decided to walk uptown to visit Central Park - this turned out to be a lot further than we had thought, and with my bad foot it took us well over an hour to get there. Never mind, once we arrived we had a quick look at the horse and carriages (we couldn't afford one!), then went into the park and relaxed by a pond full of terrapins, birds and fish - quite relaxing for NYC! Once my foot was feeling a bit...

We have only 1 day left in Guernsey! We've finished work, and are now both officially unemployed for the forseeable future. We've also had an amazing last weekend, celebrating Andre and Jo's wedding and then having an early Christmas dinner to make up for the one we'll miss this year. We've said our goodbyes and finished packing, and my backpack weighs only 10kg!! This is a minor miracle as I usually struggle to pack for a 3 week holiday in less than 20kg, so I f...

So it's 3 weeks until we leave Guernsey, me and Joel have been planning this for ages and have spent the last year going out as little as possible to save as much money as we can for the trip. We've got pretty much everything sorted now, except for actually packing our bags. The plan, so far, is to spend a few days in Hong Kong, with a day trip to Macau, on our way to Australia. We land in Perth, and the aim is to explore WA in a campervan before making our way e...