It certainly has – nearly 4 months since I last did a blog and my only feeble excuse is that I’m still dealing with the fact that I’m back in England and no holiday or travelling to look forward to in the foreseeable future!
The last blog I did was the last segment of Australia, where at the time we were a little disappointed about how friendly (or lack of) the Aussies were and how we probably would never go back there. However, time heals etc and I would love to go back and maybe see Darwin and possibly even Perth and would definitely do the East Coast all over again (minus the mini heatwave we experienced). We came across some lovely towns such as Airlie Beach, Byron Bay, Bowen and Cairns and would do it all in our little motorhome again!
As for South East Asia, well it was second time round for me and so it was my duty to show Ria the sights and sounds. So in a nutshell we took a boat ride around Clarke Quay, ate a curry in Little India and visited Changi Prison in Singapore. Saw the Petronas Towers and got seriously drunk in Chinatown for Ria’s Birthday in Kuala Lumpur. Celebrated Christmas, did some jet skiing and walked along the ‘Beach’ beach in Phuket. Visited the Grand Palace and celebrated New Year in Bangkok and got seriously bored in Hong Kong although we did see the light show from the other side of the water this time and also saw Bruce Lee’s old house! By the end of it we were sick of local Asian food (and Pizza Hut!) and the pungent smells so we were more than ready to come home.
Arrived at a very cold, wintry Heathrow on 8th January and met mum and dad at 6am (bless them) and that day saw the rest of the family and had a delayed Christmas Dinner courtesy of mum 
. That weekend we went down to Fareham to see Ria’s family and saw a couple of her friends too.
But since then not a lot has happened. We celebrated Valentine’s Day by having a curry at our regular Indian Restaurant, then ate at Nando’s with the family for my Birthday, celebrated Dad’s 65th Birthday by having a small party, saw Oliver! The musical and last but not least we had a 1st Birthday party for my little niece Daisy-May 
. I’ve also met up with friends a couple of times and we make it down to Fareham at least every other weekend to see Ria’s friends and family.
At the moment we’re both job hunting - we’re both very low on funds and want to get our own place but for me, on the other hand, I’d be happy to go back out into the big wide world and travel some more. I realise we told people we couldn’t deal with any more hostels or living out of a rucksack but to be honest if I could then I would! We reminisce about our travels often and if I could I’d do it all over again (except Asia). We absolutely loved San Francisco, Hollywood, Hawai’i, New Zealand and even Australia – even if some of the Aussies were a little rude!
Some people have even said “Do it and enjoy yourselves” and yes I have some savings but I also know it’d take a long while to save that money again – plus Ria has put her foot down and said that we should just have holidays from now on and they should be no more than maybe two weeks at a time.
I still have places that I wanna go see, like Machu Picchu and the Amazon rainforests in Peru, Rio de Janeiro and take a motorhome across America from East to West Coast but I suppose that there’s always time for things like that. Saying that I still have a little voice inside my head saying “do it, do it” because I’m fully aware that we’re not here forever! So at the moment I’m having an internal struggle but at least I’ll win this argument whatever happens!
For now though, we’ve decided our holiday destinations will be a little bit closer to home such as Spain, Rome and maybe even Turkey – I very much doubt we’ll make all three of them this year though but at least we have aspirations for the future.
And last but not least if you know anyone that has a well paid job going then please give me a call – I’m getting desperate!!
