It’s a Goa!

I was really dreading coming back. I was expecting everything to be costly, the roads to be terminally congested and the weather to be cold and rainy. I’ve been pleasantly surprised really…

…what’s changed since we’ve been away? If you want a telly it’s got to be a flat screen one and they cost rather more than the old fashioned variety. Hair-gel-and-thick-tie-knot ‘executives’ are driving Audis instead of BMWs…

…having experienced living out of a backpack and an old VW van we’re keeping our lives simple these days. We couldn’t have timed it better, to having paid off all our debts and learned to live a simple life puts us in a very good position to weather this recession.

I’ve been taking advantage of the combination of joblessness and broadband and got all our travel photos online for your perusal! http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwt/sets

For those of you that didn’t know… here’s a quick sum-up
After we earned all that money on the farm in Carnarvon we drove up the rest of the West Coast of Australia. At one point we did a bit of a convoy with some Italians and some Germans. Once we’d all parted company, we headed from […]

That’s it, we handed back the keys, packed a MASSIVE van and hit the road, dropping off Becky and her belongings on the way. This involved an amazing bit of reversing by Tace (I’ll reconsider past comments about female drivers).
We had such a great North leaving party, thanks to everyone who came and gave us such […]