Day 365, 4 July 2013. Sydney, Australia. Home - Not Being Grownups, James and I, arrived home at 7.45 am - a whole year has passed seemingly in the blink of an eye. It is winter here - but not so's you'd know it - brilliant sunshine, 20 degrees and warm. The adventure was grand -and we will never be the same. Our knowledge of history, art, other cultures, places and peoples has expanded beyond anything we could have imagined when we were in the planning and dr...

Day 364, 3 July 2013 - International Date Line. Somewhere over Samoa. Roughly. 40,000 feet closer to the stars than we usually are. Clear night sky, like the diamonds inside a black velvet bag. This is the day that never was. The time we gained when we flew to South Africa one year ago just magically disappeared and the 2nd of July became the 4th of July. The beauty of 14 odd hours is the opportunity to really have a sleep (and even a sleep in) prior to wa...

Day 363, 2 July 2013, Santiago, Chile. Another beautiful day dawned at the foot of the Andes. It was obviously going to be a relatively big packing day - positively enormous plane trip awaited us at 11.20 pm - 18 odd hours from Santiago to Sydney. So we packed and that was that - a bit of sooking on was definitely happening on my part (and I'm sure on James's as well). We eventually dropped the bags at the office, checked out and went to see what the markets...

Day 362, 1 July 2013, Valparaiso, Vina del Mar and Vina Indomita Winery (Casablanca Valley). We found a tour company via Trip Advisor and booked with itours for a day's outing without a care in the world. Usually, given enough time, we'd jump on a local bus and have a budget outing to a spot like this but today, we thought we'd treat ourselves to being driven. We chose a regular or group tour and were lucky enough to only have one other couple with us (who for...

Day 361, 30 June 2013, Santiago, Chile. We all know it pays to improve your wordpower, and in the last couple of days we learned a new word - which we have immediately put into use. The word is "Exhaustipated". It describes the situation when you are simply too tired to give a s**t. Which pretty much covered it today. We accidentally slept in til 9.15 am - which meant there was no way we could make it to the 10 am walking tour. So we promised we'd have a st...