Back Home - Yippee!

It is hard to explain how weird it feels to come back after a year away. It actually feels like you were never away after a very short amount of time - and sometimes I almost didn’t believe that we live in Australia. Although I can imagine that if we stayed away for longer it would start to become stranger.

The most difficult thing I found was remembering the local road map in my head. Planning what route to take and which roads and junctions off motorways that were once second nature to me took just a bit longer to recall.

The other thing is that after being away for so long, everything is so exciting; seeing family and friends (and even people you just recognise), being back in my old home and looking around the farm again, smells and sounds, tasting the food, drinking the drinks, driving along familiar roads, going out in York, back to my old workplace in Hessle, out in Hull again and even a trip into Selby was an exciting prospect at first...

Add this to the fact that, oh yes, we were actually getting married as well and you can imagine how the whole trip turns into an extremely emotional experience, from tears of joy to tears of laughter in a day, and sometimes within an hour when it is time to say goodbye. Even though we were there for 7 weeks, the time seemed to absolutely fly by because we just jumped from one thing to another – thankfully we had time-tabled lots of visits and events in before arriving to try and cut down on stress levels while we were there!