London Heathrow - Home Again

And finally, on the 471st day, we came home.

The last leg was a characteristically spicy journey involving standby flights to Heathrow courtesy of Ash, who is also incidentally winner of the coveted prize of our most extensive visitor on the trip.

Initial nervousness was reasonable (including a lot of speculation about what to do if one if us got left behind) but we both made it on board, there was champagne, there was whisky, there was Actual Proper Tea, no sleep was had, Fi (Elli's sister) acted as ground based plane spotter to wave us in from South London, Heathrow Airport provided every form of exhausting badly organised chaos that they could think of, and we made it back to Elm Park with a fabulous welcome home banner from Gill (Chris' mum, and winner of the prize of most engaged Findpenguins commenter) at the station.

From these two travellers who are very ready for some home comforts, that's a wrap. Thanks and congratulations to anyone who managed to follow along 🌎👋🛩Read more