11th Feb

We are back from Australia, i am not going to do a blog for the last two weeks because we have had so many good experiences and have done too much to start writing it down, just to say we had a wonderful unforgettable experience.
We left Adelaide Airport, waving goodbye to mum and aunty M with a bit of a tear, and got through to Sydney with no problems, checked in and got seats all the way through to Paris, so that was a bit of a relief, business class to Singapore then economy the rest of the way, but we made the most of it and i slept for a bit on the Singapore Heathrow leg. When we got to London we were hit by the cold, which was a bit of a shock, snow falling and completely the opposite from Adelaide. We jumped an earlier flight to Paris as there were more available seats, Ant kindly let me have the one club seat available to us whilst he sat down the back. We had a fair wait in Paris but filled in the time with coffee at the Sheraton and a McDonalds with free wifi, then caught our train up to Arras. The scene out of the window on the train was a white wonderland and looked incredibly cold, when we got off in Arras Mark was waiting for us and we had a hair raising drive back to the house.
Back home we dumped our stuff and put on the heating and the water before heading out to pick up the dogs, who were reassuringly pleased to see us, then came back, put the fire on and did a couple of phone calls to let people know we were back. We had a couple of hours on the sofa, when i fell asleep, then had a little dinner before heading off to sleep.