Last Days....

Tomorrow I leave Europe...and I don't know when I will be back. It hurts. It feels like the end of my trip - even though I know I am yet to spend 6 weeks in South America.

I leave behind some of the people I love most in the world. But the time I have spent here with them has been healing and relaxing...just as spending time with people you love should be.

I got on that plane in Brisbane 2 months ago with so much excitement...winging my way over to this side of the world with plans and dreams and the highest of hopes.

I was welcomed back to my old home town of Horsham with open arms by the people who are so close to me and who I love so much that I refer to them as my 'English Family'. In no time it was as if I had never left. I spent heaps of time in the South of England and plenty of time in London, being treated to amazing meals, lots of drinks and fun days spent in all my favourite English places catching up with a lot of the people who really matter to me.

I flew to Barcelona twice to spend much-craved quality time with my best friend...soaking up this amazing spanish city through his eyes and learning about his life there...committing every moment to memory in the hope that they will last me through until i am next with him...seeing in this year of change by celebrating the very best of spanish food and traditions, helped along by a dinner party full of fun and fabulous people...

I spent a snowy white christmas in switzerland with my long-time and very precious friend Alex and a bunch of fun aussies that embraced me straight into their home and group. we clamboured around mountains at the top of the world and raced down them on toboggans before heading home to gallons of french champagne.

I lived out my ultimate fantasy by living in Paris for a month....in a little apartment on the left bank, learning french, meeting fun new people from all over the world, including a few frenchies! and attempting to be 'la belle parisienne'...living and breathing my favourite city in the world and making the most of every single opportunity it offered....

I leave with a very heavy heart. This was a trip I have looked forward to from the moment I left in June 2009...and saying goodbye was always going to be difficult

But there is one thing I know...Horsham, and the cities around it in which I have become so comfortable, London, Barcelona and Paris, will always hold an anchored, stable place in my life and my heart. I'll be back...hopefully sooner than we all think.

And now....on to Buenos Aires and a whole new adventure.

till next time.