November 1 home sweet home!

 After 2 months on the road and sea, we are finally home but we’ve been hiding - jet lagged and suffering with a touch of vertigo and a big dose of some lurgy yuk!  After nigh on 18,000 km and 33 hours door to door from the UK to home with but a few snatched naps, we fell into bed feeling totally exhausted but mightily relieved.  It was soooo good to be home - even if it was after 2am! What a trip and what a delightfully welcome sight was the garden and the birds - once we and the sun woke up! We were pretty woozy which is not surprising given the roads we had bumped across for 5 weeks. Lindsay figured we had driven around 5000 km total between UK and the Faroes - but it felt like much more to me having had my eyes glued to a map a lot of the time. Overall it was a pretty hard trip, physically speaking, but one of fascinating discovery - and that’s without the North Poles!

The garden has survived very well with lots of lovely new growth including two new flower stalks on the orchid (a welcome home present?) and there are loads of baby lemons and limes coming along and over a dozen figs swelling on the tree. All is well except us - BUT as the lyrics go - “we will survive”.  And we have! 

What's next? India - a totally new country, a new continent and  lots of challenges no doubt. A bientot .......