It is just 5 days until Leanne, Nathan and I head off on our 7 month adventure to Europe and South America. We have been thinking about this trip for ages, but never got the chance to make concrete plans until quite recently, so I guess that adds to our excitement. There is not much left to do; pack some more boxes, send the cars off to their new homes and hop on a plane on the 30th June. Even so, I know we will be busy until the very last minute. That is just the way we are! The plan is to spend over three months on each continent. We land in Heathrow first and have 6 days in England. Then off to Greece for about a month, but we have nothing booked anywhere so ... read more

Todo bien hombre is our new saying which means "All good man!" we have managed to improve our Spanish a bit by being here. So after 2 ruins in 2 days in Merida we headed to a place called Valladolid which was also a nice colonial town and a great stepping off point for the most famous ruin - Chichen Itza. Unfortunately our bus was late and we didn´t arrive at Chichen Itza until 3.30pm. We walked around (thinking it closed at 5.30pm) but it closed at 4.30pm so we didn´t get to see the observatory :-( Apparently the Mayan priests were great mathemeticians and quite into their astronomy lining up stars and positions of the sun etc when building these great pyramids. The pyramid there was amazing though, and interestingly, during the equinox the sun ... read more

Wildlife!!! Lots of it, so I was in my element. I totally loved this place for its wildlife diversity. We were so lucky to have seen whales on 2 occasions. Just some final points of note: Macaws are interesting birds. We found out that the white skin of their faces turns pink/red if they get excited...yes they blush! So if you talk really sweetly to them and tell them they are a pretty boy etc they blush! So funny... My feet and ankles.....they really do expand! Whenever I go on a long walk or get tired they swell up, and get quite painful. On one of the days I went a bit too far and got these ugly red kinda bruises around my ankles which I was paranoid wouldn't go away but thankfully they have now. ... read more

Well its been a while I know, but we have been busy on our holiday, so sorry to those of you who were waiting for an update! I´ll pick up where Jon left off....Samara. This is our favourite place. We ended up staying for 6 nights and I pretty much got into a nice routine here. In the morning after a nice healthy breakfast Jon would head off to the beach as he was learning to surf (another activity that I coudn´t participate in) whilst I went to the local cafe and had a morning coffee. This cafe was on the beach under some nice palm trees, just heaven!! The place we were staying was like a fully self contained apartment. One night we had dinner at a restaurant on the beach that was renowned for ... read more