Day 40 3x3 things

London to Narita/ Narita to Sydney

Well I have to face the facts – this holiday is coming to an end. I was so sad to hug Rob goodbye this morning. Not only because he’s a good friend who I’ve known most of my life and he lives on the other side of the world but because I had to say goodbye to this part of the world with all it’s history and cold weather, culture and good coffee.

But don’t misunderstand me I love Australia and not just because my cherubs are there. It’s not until I travelled a bit that I recognised the things I valued about home. I’m sitting in the Qantas lounge at Narita right now and I can hear Aussie tellie in the background, I love hearing our accent. I love our sense of humour and our laid-back-ness. I love that there are things we expect as a given like free and fair elections, turmoil like Egypt is seeing right now makes me very happy to live on our isolated little island, everything is so close here, so inter-related.

This will be my last post to AllansAbroad, we have a long layover in Narita (11 hours) and then we’re on our last flight (makes 16 for this holiday!) to Sydney arriving on day 41 (or possibly day 42) – Saturday. This is what I’ll look like for the next couple of days, gotta love those business class seats!

Thanks for coming along with with me for the ride. I’ve enjoyed writing these posts at the end of each day, it’s helped me feel connected to you all and also connected to the holiday. I know that sounds weird but when you pack as much as we have into 41 days it does all start o blur a bit. anyway here’s some last favourite things…

travelling
1. Being with MGM 24/7
2. collecting stamps in my passport.
3. never having to cook

coffee
1. Monica’s breakfast coffee
2. Standing up in Venice
3. with gishy cake in Bad Aussee

top 3 for this trip
1. MGM
2. Snow
3. Sights & tastes