After breakfast, we headed back to the airport to catch our 10.50 flight. We were there in plenty of time but made our way straight to the gate. Manchester greeted us with its usual overcast skies but it was warmer than we had been used to. It's nice to go away but there's no place like home.

Our flight to Oslo from Manchester Airport was at 11:00, arriving at 13:55 and we arrived at the airport nice and early which was just as well. Security was an absolute nightmare! Now I don't usually mind it being so as I just think that it's all part of keeping everyone safe but this was a joke. First of all, I failed the full body scan which is not unusual. The hand luggage followed us through but my camera bag was rejected. The nice lady asked if she could ope...

We were up bright and early despite the lateness of the hour we returned last night. Every morning we have looked out of our window to a different view, this morning was no exception. This was the first time we had seen the trees covered with frost, it was so beautiful. We absorbed the view for one last time as we grabbed a quick breakfast before saying our last goodbyes to Jonny and meeting our taxi to the airport. A little more than an hour later and we were ch...

It's a lovely sunny morning and we're up at the crack of dawn for our transfer to the airport. We're quite sad to be leaving Iceland, it's a wonderful country of contradictions, glaciers on top of volcanoes that could erupt at any moment with very little warning, the air is cold but there is steam and hot water coming out of the earth. There are vast lava fields, beautiful waterfalls and rivers. The people are friendly and welcoming even though they eat rotten fi...

We were up early to pack and make sure the cottage was ship shape before we left. A trip down to Widemouth Bay and the Bay View Inn for breakfast in preparation for the long journey ahead. Just as well as we were held up in heavy traffic almost all of the way home. What was predicted by sat nav to be a 5 hour journey, turned into a 7 hour ordeal. Once we hit the M6, it was stop-start all the way home. We did manage a slight detour off the motorway then rejoined t...