Flights home

The time has come to return home.  Looking forward to getting back but really sad to be leaving Prague.  Frank, Belinda and the boys made us feel so welcome, they were the oasis in between the chaos of travelling all over the countryside.  Can’t wait to catch up with family and friends when we get back – we’ll have plenty of stories and I know you can’t wait to hear them.

We rented a Skoda Rapid, brand new when we picked it up at the airport, by the time we returned it after 6 weeks it had done 7500 kilometres.  It didn’t miss a beat and was both big enough for us and our luggage and small enough to squeeze between all the crazy traffic.  The only complaint was it lacked cruise control, not sure why that would have been but it was a bit of a nuisance.  We saw lots of countries and lots of sites in each country. Hard to say what the favourite parts were – from the sea to the Alps it was such a contrast it’s all worth a bit of a look.   I’m sure we could stay for 6 years and still not cover all the territory in this part of the world.  I’m sure we’ll be back over here sometime, somewhere.

The Blog has been very enjoyable and will bring great memories to us when we look back in years to come.  I'm lucky Pam has been my editor in chief and principle fact checker, so you can be sure everything mention herein is true and correct.
Pam kept a tally - 
We drove 7,500 kilometres
Fuel - $740
Tolls - $198
Tunnels - 181 for a distance of 148 kilometres
Biggest walking day - 27,000 steps

Beer and champagne to get us on the plane

On our way, I know everyone has this photo in their album, didn't want to disappoint you!

Home from the beautiful summer days in Europe to winter at the beach again.  We landed at about 1am and got home to Elanora at 3am.  Slept till midday, went grocery shopping, collected the mail, put some washing on then went to say hello to the beach for the first time in 6 weeks.