I'm back and this is my last blog for a while. It's so strange being back here! I thought I'd be desperately upset to return but so far the only emotion I've felt is extreme happiness... I think it's gonna hit me at some point and it's not gonna be fun! Anyway there won't be anymore blogs for 15 weeks until I start travelling again and part 3 is the big one - 9 weeks away in Australia, Sinagpore, Thailand, and Dubai. Oh I cannot wait... I really do have a bug but...

I'm sitting in Heathrow airport waiting to see if British Airways will pay me to change my flight.... I hope they do!!! 250 euros apparently!!!!

Hey folks. Just sitting in terminal 4 in heathrow, enjoying a nice latte before the 8 hour flight to nairobi. Had a lovely few days at home managing to get all my packing done in record time (for me anyway!) with a little help from some magic fairies! I'm so tired at the moment from all the excitement that I've been suffering from! I don't normally sleep on planes but perhaps this will be the first time!

Well this is it - the end of my statue viewing, pizza eating, wine consuming, sight-seeing, foot-tiring, skive! I really can't believe that I've been away for nearly a month and to say that the trip has been bizarre would be an understatement! My achievements of the trip so far are: - completing a rubik's cube in 15 minutes - holding a conversation in Italian - determining whether a skeleton is male or female, age at death, and how they died - navigating th...

Ahh... the penultimate day of part one. By this I mean: Part One - Rome and Athens Part Two - Tanzania and Zanzibar Part Three - Australia, Sinagpore, Dubai and Thailand I suppose the only purpose of me telling you that is just to make you jealous again. Anyhow, we went to the seaside today. Piraeus which is Athens harbour is only a 20 minute metro journey away. I went for a paddle in the Mediterranean - by that I mean placed my hand in and decided it was a...