Booked it, Packed it ....

It's been a busy couple of weeks for us.

After a bit of a panic moment at the beginning of last week when it dawned on me just how much we had left to do before we set off, the good news is that we're now much more organised all round. We both have rucksacks, everything fits in the rucksacks and so now all we have to get through is the half a million or so jobs on our 'To do' list. It just seems that everytime we manage to clear a few more things off the list, we find a new set of things to do, keeping it around the half a million mark most of the time.....

After a few weekends UK-trotting, we stayed at home last weekend and Gareth whipped up a top curry and his now world-famous homemade onion bhajees (well almost world-famous) for the whole of the Rees Clan - and it wouldn't have been a proper night in without a bottle or two of champagne (I feel weak at the thought of no fizz for six months).

Our last full week in work flew by and Friday night I met up with the girlies for dinner and Dirty Dancing lessons before next week's trip to London. Eleri came well prepared with a bottle of fizz but drama of dramas - we couldn't open it, despite Nia's best efforts with a butter knife. We enjoyed anyway and I'm sure we'll make up for it in London.....

Saturday night we were in Southampton to celebrate Lynn and Jon's joint 30th birthdays and their engagement - big smiles all round. Got lots of top travel tips from Lynn's friends who between them seem to have travelled everywhere on earth and certainly everywhere on our route, which was great.