October 25 to 30 ...and that's it, we're heading home!

From a farm stay with chooks and turkeys to a field behind the Red Lion, a C17 hotel near Winfrith in Dorchester, we are on a seemingly long trek east to Cambridge to return our campervan. By Australian standards it is not a huge distance but the traffic and road systems (and avoiding large population centres) make it rather more challenging - and slow going.  The pub is great but the ‘camping’ amenities leave a little to be desired, but we had a huge pub meal and woke to a rather lovely misty morning. 

Low ceilings create a cozy feeling

The Red Lion - another one!

We continued eastward with an overnight stop at Crowborough and a delightful catch up with a fellow passenger from our 2022 Iceland Aurora expedition. From there it was straight onto the London Ring Road, what a shocker! but we arrived still sane in Roseberry a wee bit north of Cambridge and almost at the end of our journey. 

Glad to be heading home!

The mist lifted and the sky was crisscrossed with contrails

More bl ... tunnels

The grass underneath this tree was a red carpet - gorgeous 

Next day we returned the van in Cambridge and spent a couple of nights eating up our stores and resting in preparation for our 17,000 Km flight home, a ghastly 22.5 hours (with 2hr to change planes in Dubai).

Columns of dusky clouds reaching up to greet the fiery-gold dawn in Dubai