Land of hope and glory...and pasties, proper beer and disappointing summer weather July 1st 2008 This has took a while to get online because we have been such busy bees lately. But now, as we have some time to reminice...this is how our return to ENgland from Spain went...
P.S. I apologise for the title - "London Calling". I wanted a song name with London in it, that's all. It was either that or "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner". But I'm not. Anyway...
London calling
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It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia.
Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth....
"Where next?" you might ask.
Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam.
We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info