This Blog is about our Adventures Around The World from November 08 through to September 09 And More

The World Is Full Of Wonderful Sights

- And then our life afterwards as we move to a new country, and other trips old and new and much much more.

You see this is something we have wanted to do for a long time, something we have talked about, dreamt about and wished for.

So have many of you.

We wanted to put ‘normal’ life on hold, buy a round the world ticket (or 4) and walk away from chilly credit crunch Britain for a year (or) more.

Fresh from deciding to close  my small recruitment and training company as the downturn hit hard, and not sure what to do next.

Having next to no chance of selling our house in the present market, in fact owning our house at the moment is like watching money walk off down the street possibly never to be seen again, depending on who you listen to.

We have had it on the market and we did have somebody interested, but this leach was just into taking advantage of people in financial trouble (luckily that’s not us yet!) – Her offer was amazing for its chutzpah. She took the value the house was for sale at, and then removed the perceived drop in value over the past year and, then, also deducted next years estimated price drop as well and offered us that.  My answer to the Estate Agent was a short sharp two words which included three letters F’s and an exclamation mark. We never heard from her again, I’m pleased to say.

So we intend (hope) to let the house out while we are away.

We have been ebaying like crazy in an everything must go frenzy, we have given away thousands of pounds worth of items to friends and family, we have sold our cars (for a fraction of their value to us) at auction.  The kids game machines have gone, The TV’s including the beloved giant screen in the lounge, gone!

We also had to find our wonderful Cat, Tiger, a new trustworthy home.

It’s quiet amazing when you start realizing just how much stuff we have accumulated, we had 8 TV’s,  4 PC’s not including the two laptops we would be taking, and the DVD’s are piled high.

We are putting some things into storage, but to put too much would just lead to a super large storage bill and what’s the point?

Other than some books (books and reading are very important items in our family, something we all enjoy).  and our antique or collectable glass items, everything else can be replaced with a newer, bigger, better, more ‘green’ version, when, if, we return.

And Wonderful Colors

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