All our bags are packed we're ready to go..

This is it.  Our last day in London.  What started as a single year of adventures has become a 1 year 10 month adventure for Lee and a 1 year 8 month adventure for me.  We have been very lucky to have some very good times with really great people.  It is a bittersweet leaving for me.  The people I have met here have been great,we've managed to travel and explore so much and there will always be more to see.

We have learnt how to get around: Underground, buses, trains, DLR.  We have learnt to be understood, from the simple: pants/trousers, crisps and sweets, indoors meaning home; through to the phrases: "ah bless", "do y'know what I mean?" 

We've visited:
United Kingdom
Bath
Birmingham
Bourneville
Brighton
Bristol
Broadstairs  (I swear, we didn't just choose the 'B' places)
Cambridge
Darlington
Lake District
Leeds
Nottingham
Oxford
Portsmouth
Rye
Sheffield
Southampton
Windsor
Waymouth
Yorkshire Dales
Northern Ireland
Wales
Scotland
Belgium
Brussels
Bruges
Italy
Bologna
Florence
La Spezia
Liagnano Sabadorio
Milan
Pisa
Rimini
Venice
Australia
Austria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Lichtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
USA

I've been everywhere man!

And our adventures don't finish here.  

We are heading back to Australia via a couple of weeks in the USA.  First in New York and Washington, then across to Seattle to meet up with Lee's Dad.  I plan to continue to blog my way through that trip, plus through the adventures that we are bound to have in Australia once we move back.  So goodbye to London and goodbye to the byline, "Following Karen and Lee on their year(s) in London and everywhere else they go.."