Just a quick note to say we made it back safely – Christchurch -> Sydney wasn’t too bad (3 hrs) and Sydney airport was OK, they even had free internet kiosks.

The next leg, Sydney -> Dubai was 14 hrs and was a bit of a killer :-s

We had about 3 hrs to kill in Dubai airport and looked round the shops – the stuff seemed fairly cheap, but not amazingly so. They had a couple of cool laptops, one of the HP ones with a built-in webcam looked cool running Vista, but when I worked it out it was about £800 – which I am sure is about what you would pay here… need to check. We bought some bottled water for the next leg of the journey, but that was about it.

The final leg was Dubai -> Heathrow (7 hrs) and seemed like a walk in the park compared to the previous flight. We arrived back in Heathrow on schedule and the UK weather was overcast but mild – still a bit of a shock to the system after the great NZ weather we have been used to.

Our airport taxi guy was waiting for us as expected and we got driven home without incident.

So we are home now, with our body clocks all screwed up (it’s 15:00 on Friday and my body still thinks it is 04:00 on Saturday?!) but that will sort itself out given time.

The house is immaculate (thanks auntie Lou!) and Tigger is pleased to see us. Just the unpacking and stuff to do now and I am looking forward to a nice hot bath.

Speak to you all soon. Thanks for reading this blog and leaving all those comments, it meant a lot to us while we were on the other side of the world!