Saturday - one week since we got back Wow. Woke up this morning to see the news about the huge earthquake and flooding that has hit New Zealand, exactly where we were supposed to be! Clearly some things happen for a reason and it looks like it was in fact a good time to come on home. Week one of being in the UK has been interesting. Key foods such as Marmite, roast dinner and treacle sponge pudding have all been consumer, as have proper English sausages. In f...

SATURDAY - BACK TO THE UK Ended up at Heathrow early (though this ultimately was not a blessing) and went into T5 which is an excellent terminal. Shiny, new and organised with the best toilets of the trip. On the way into the baggage reclaim, Nik joked "I can see our bags already", and then when we got to the bottom of the stairs, we already could see our bags - the first ones going around the conveyor by themselves having survived the changeover. Th...

While it is not the most exotic venue, every journey has to have a starting point, and in this case it is sunny Worthing (actually sunny today). The picture will serve as a point of comparison for future beach images we will post up. Will it be rivalled by Indonesia or Australia?? Before dad takes us to the airport tonight (which is likely to be the most stressful experience of all), Hannah plans to enjoy the things she will miss most of all: her ugg boots and h...