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There's No Place Like Home
... like it's been a month. We had a bit of a freak out when we were landing, and decided to distract oursleves by listing the numbers of planes, coaches and boats we've been on! However, we now both back home and enjoying all the festivities. It's great to be back, even if it is freezing!! We've had an incredible year that neither of us will ever forget, a massive thank you to everyone that we've met, and to everyone back at home, we've had the time of our lives.
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Finding roots in Maidstone, Staplehurst, Headcorn
... a footpath opposite the wheelwright building that lead beside some pretty meadows and led up to the churchyard of the All Saints Church. We looked at lots of headstones but again couldn't find or read any with the Boorman name on them. We went into the church and found workmen doing repairs and renovations. I heard some men's voices coming form a side chamber and, hesitant to interrupt a meeting, I tried to find an unobtrusive way to ...
So, why?
... in a Campervan. It was trips to Indonesia, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Eastern Europe. All alien places, all places my mind wasn't imaginative enough to only dream about. I had to go see for myself.
I needed some excitement.
Now I know any backpacker reading this will laugh, I mean let's face it, I've hardly trekked to the North Pole in just my pants. But for me, all of these were huge deals. Hugely ...
Mundane
... 100% of my concentration) My memory for dates and names is terrible but things I've seen have stuck and I refuse to let them go.
I am also lucky for another reason. Members of my family are actually genuinely interested in my topics of conversation. Saving the world, politics, religion, the starving majority etc. etc. Unfortunately, I can't keep that sort of topic going for long with anyone else. And after ...
Background story, of sorts...
... a time in Australia. I sort of forgot all about it for another six months, when I found myself south bound to Singapore, on the same Singapore Airlines Airbus A-380 that took me to Australia almost a year (to the day) before.
Things were different this time though. For one, it would be a very brief trip. Since arriving back in the UK, I had struggled to get back into the lucrative world ...