Final Week in the UK

We have arrived back in Portsmouth to make our final preparations before we ship off to Perth, Australia. It's really getting exciting now. When people ask us when we are going, we used to say '29 November'. Now, we say Thursday. It's starting to feel very real. And the good old British weather is giving us a proper send off with storms and rain and wind every day. We've sold the car and now we are just going through the last bits and pieces.

We are not nervous or uneasy about the move in any way. This just feels so right for us. I've been out to Perth six times, and Nick three times so we have a fair idea of what to expect. And having spent almost 10 years apart from my parents and little brother I feel like I'm going home, even though I've never lived there before myself. They have just bought an awesome new home, which we are all going to live in together. We have spent all our savings on our adventures over the last nine months so we need to get some jobs to build some funds up again but we will be going on camping adventures whenever we can.

But we are now having to face the only hard part of the whole process - leaving our friends and family behind in the UK. These days with things like Facebook and Skype, the world is really getting smaller and smaller and we will stay in touch with everyone easily.

And of course this blog will continue to document what we do and how we do it (although we may rename it..... any ideas let us know!).

We held a farewell party at the weekend and we had an awesome time, so many people turned up to wish us well. It was emotional at times, which is inevitable I guess when you have such a close, amazing group of people around you like we have.

But we strongly insist that it is not a goodbye. It's a see you later, a till next time.