The Beginning of the trip. At Darwin airport with the Mob, Kamal and Brigid to see us off. Bali here we come

Europe v2.0 begins. This time we have a multi-part, multi-party journey starting with a meeting of old friends in Bali - Andre and Patricia, Yvonne and Dick, and a Welsh-Aussie wedding with a romantic back story criss-crossing the globe; From Bali a swing through Singapore picking up Nathan but leaving Andre and Patrica and on to Madrid Spain with Nathan, d*** and Yvonne, picking up Dylan and Carmen from Madrid to Murcia to Alicante to meet the parents, while d**...

We're baaack! Sixty days; planes, trains, automobiles, buses, ferries, vaporettos, camels and a s***load of walking; too many hotels, homestays and one Berber tent; innumerable churches, artwork, museums, castles, shops, ruins, medinas, tanneries, cafes, pubs, scary cemeteries and underground vaults, TinTin at the cinema in York, walled towns, kasbahs, 30,000 year old cave paintings, 1000 year old medinas and cathedrals (different from churches), beaches, rivers,...

I am titling this leg as "Guantanamera", or "Only One Tanah Merah", for reasons which will become obvious - my last heroic misnavigation. Caught the Heathrow Express from Paddington, conveyed from Trafalgar (sounds like we were moving around a giant Monopoly board) by a chatty London Cabbie who reinfected Jeannie with a desire for a cruise on account of the dozen he'd been on. Singapore airline trip was just over 12 hours straight through. We had the wonderful ...

Bye bye London. Bye England. Bye Europe. And bye bye European Holiday! We've had a fantastic two months on the road, seeing fantastic sights, meeting some really interesting people and generally having a great time, and we will have great memories of our time on tour. Even if our memories fail us the 10000 photos will help jog our memories. We aren't joking - at least 10000. Buckle in for the holiday picture show Yvonne! "Please make Jim stop Jeannie, I can't tak...