Home Sweet Home

I'm back on English soil, so this will be my last post under the guise of Far From Home, although I'm considering keeping up the blog but about different things... I normally hate lists but so many people have asked what were my favourite/worst moments, how many miles did I travel etc that I've decided lists are the best way to do it.

The stats: 6 months travel , 28493 miles in airplanes(~ 4 metric tonnes of CO2 = 8 trees to offset), >3000 miles in buses and 5 countries.

Top 5: beautiful places
1. Sunrise over Annapurna range from Poon Hill, Nepal
2. Grand Canyon - Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
3. Night sky - Western Australian Desert
4. Parsa Village - Dang, Nepal
5. Coral Bay - Western Australia

Top 5: Moments
1. Walking with the girls, Blue Mountains
2. Evening prayer at HVP school
3. Gliding over vineyards in Hunter Valley, Australia
4. Counting stars in Parsa
5. Dancing to New Orleans Jazz in New York.

Bottom 3: Moments - because it wasn't all fun!
1. Loosing my Camera in Boston - kind of self explanatory here!
2. First night in youth hostel in Perth Australia - the air con was noisy, the dorm was full of unfriendly people who snored and it was my first day away from Phil.
3. Arriving in the noisy, smelly, bewildering and sticky city of Bangkok - not sure I'd go again!

I travelled on the train back up to Leeds today, the train manager advertised cheese and onion pastie as the lunch special of the day - home sweet home!