Journeying towards home
We are home. Back to reality. We left Barcelona in early January heading by train for Marseilles via Montpellier. From Marseilles we travelled through the French countryside to Paris, across to London and up to Ipswich. The snow was everywhere, especially in England where the temperature was -20C in places. We had prepaid accommodation booked in Dublin but flights were cancelled. It seems to arrange for a refund on the tickets that we can’t use from the cancelled flights we must pay almost the same amount. We didn’t want to pay for more accommodation in a frozen London so we headed for home via Los Angeles earlier than planned, staying at Santa Monica beach. This thawed us out and prepared us for a return to a New Zealand summer. And then there was the little adventure of a lost passport …