Home Leave is a Beautiful Thing

It really is. You realise that life back home carries on without you but it's still just as easy to slip back in exactly where you left off. It also renews your strength to continue your life back in your host country. It's good therapy!

I count our August trip back 'home' as our first official Home Leave. Last year didn't count for me because although our visit home was planned as such, it actually turned out to be a transitional stopover as we bid our unexpected farewell to India and packed our belongings into another container and slowly made our way to the US. There was still much to be sorted out before we arrived here and there were many uncertainties hanging in the air.


So this year, almost to the date of our 1st anniversary we boarded that plane and then packed as much and as many people that we could into 2 short weeks. We had a blast. We were here, there and everywhere. We enjoyed the cooler weather, we shopped, had haircuts and laughed at the fact that the Americans staying in the cottage next door to us were far better prepared for the English weather than we were! We visited 'old' places and haunts! We ate real bacon in real bread, Giant Yorkshire puddings with lashings of gravy and of course Ellie's appetite for sausage rolls had to be satisfied.

Thanks to everyone we had the pleasure of spending time with and sorry to those we didn't....I think a longer trip is necessary next year.

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