2 years ago, when we returned from our Excellent Adventure #1, we found that we had picked up a bug while we were away. It was a bug that we had been warned about, but we had both managed to get through several decades of our lives without previously having any noticable contact with it so we didn't pay much heed. Hence, we both ended up arriving home with a pretty bad case of the Travel Bug.
While we were coming to terms with what we were going to do about our affliction, our friends Chris and Al told us that they were thinking about planning their own Excellent Adventure - they had always dreamed of visiting France. Et voila! The idea for this trip was germinated. They were a little nervous about taking off to the other side of the world, while the only treatment for our Travel Bug seemed to be hair of the dog (or velour of the airplane perhaps). It seemed obvious that what we all needed was to explore France together.
So, we began planning, saving and taking French lessons together.
Later, during our trip to Vanuatu with Tony & Toni, we were really excited to find that they were keen to join us too. Because of their children and their business, they couldn't be away as long as the rest of us, but we worked out that about 10 days in France with us was definitly doable. Fabulous! The more the merrier we reckon! It means that there are more people to delegate the blog writing too, so should be more interesting for you to read than just me blabbing on.
It all seemed so long ago, and now we are only a month away from going. There have been a couple of hiccups at the last minute - but none-the-less, we are off to France on our Excellent Adventure #3.
This time, we have made it easier for you to post us messages. We have got around the issue of unknown people posting messages by adding an accept/reject message function at our end. Just select "Anonymous" as your identity when you post a message and you won't have to worry about having a Google account like last time. It is really great to get messages from home while we are away, so make sure you keep in touch xx
Counting down to June!
