Goodbye England

September 16-23 & 30-31, 2007

We have left England so many times in the last 12 months that we felt that our last departure was just another one of those and it felt like we`d be back in a flash. I guess we were in a way because we returned from our travels in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey for a week, while Davo worked away to earn a few more pounds to spend in South America, and Fi played house mum.

We tried our hardest to visit our favourite pubs for some fine English cuisine. We went to the White Hart for the biggest and best cod and chips in the country, the Swan for the famous Felsted burger and we had to go back to the Cricketers in Clavering (Jamie Oliver´s mum and dad´s pub) where we had... (quote menu?).

We had a fitting farewell to the English countryside by doing a 10 mile walk for charity, organised by the vet clinic in Essex where Davo has been working. We have definitely lived in one of the most under-rated and secretly beautiful parts of the UK in our opinion.

So Davo spent a week drinking beer at Oktoberfest with some vet mates and Fi lived it up in Barcelona taking part in one of their biggest fiestas for the year, before we both returned to England for one final weekend.

We spent a bit of time packing, a lot of time unsuccessfully trying to watch the Aussie Rules grand final and the rest of the time enjoying the company of many of our friends whom we may not see again for a long time.

W spent the day in the local pub in Felsted, watching a bit of rugby and a bit of bloody Manchester United (has to be played in every pub in town, instead of the Aussie Rules grand final replay), and dined at the marvellous Raj for our last quintessentially English meal, curry!

We´ll miss Felsted a lot, maybe not the pub so much, but definitely the punters who frequent there. It feels like we`ll be seeing them again just around the corner, but in reality, who know`s when we`ll be in the UK next or when they`ll visit Australia. Good thing we`ve got the internet to keep in touch.

Next stop... South America!

Johnnie aka Rev

Jaz

Tom

Heather

Denise and Jerry