After a year of saving, two years of planning and even more years dreaming, we've just arrived at Manchester airport for the first flight of 'the boomerang'! It's hard to put into words my current feeling - excited, nervous, happy, sad and definitely tired, that sounds about right, lets go with that. The morning panic with snow didn't help either! Flight #1 leaves in around 20 mins (08:45) to Dubai, UAE. It's roughly six and a half hours arriving in time for a ...

Hi All, Welcome to my blog - many travel blogs have been started, but never finished, this (I hope) will be different. With my last day at work long behind me, my leaving do only a few days away, it's time to start the packing and final preparations for my trip of a lifetime! Pack small they say, as small and light and you can, now that I have the contents of my bag laid in front of me, I can't help but think the only thing small is my bag. It'll all fit, ri...