Yes, Ches and I are still in Leichhardt, even though the time and date may be confusing. I've already set the time for UK time and no doubt the date will become totally confused when we travel back through time when flying to Amsterdam via Seoul. Hopefully I can reset both when we arrive there.

We will be flying out of Sydney at 9:30am on the 1st June and returning on 22nd July. We'll be spending a couple of days in Amsterdam on our way to Southampton. That's the price we have to pay for avoiding Heathrow and flying direct from Amsterdam to Southampton.

We'll spend 5 weeks touring around the South of England and then return to the Netherlands for 12 days, including an 8 day cruise of the canals. So wanted to see as many Vermeer paintings as possible on this trip and just discovered that they had a major exhibition of Vermeers borrowed from all over the world. Sold out for every day of the exhibition and it's all over before we even arrive. Van Gogh and Rembrandt witll still satisfy.

I hope to post daily, even of it's only some photographs and a few notes, however, as has happened in the past, I may contract verbal diarrhea en route, so be warned.

Speak to you again from Seoul ... or Amsterdam.