Oh dear, time flies, we have been home for three days and have just realised we haven’t signed off from the blog. Apologies if anybody has been concerned that we were lost somewhere on the French railway network!

Our journey home from Spain was pretty easy, it took exactly 24 hours from door to door but the connection times were generous and mostly ran on schedule. Our only delay was on Eurostar which left on time but stopped mid journey. The train in front hit a deer and everything stopped while they completed safety checks. We arrived in London one hour late but that was fine, it meant less time hanging around at Paddington waiting to board the sleeper. We never received an update on the condition of the deer.

We arrived back at Penzance station at 7.55am having completed a 4335 mile round trip. Our friend Brian had kindly offered to meet the train so we were back home in no time and Carl was waiting with the kettle on.

What an adventure we have had. It was a fairly brisk schedule but we achieved our objective of getting a taster of parts of Italy we haven’t visited before. Sicily was wonderful and we will definitely return there. I’m glad we’ve seen Naples but we won’t rush back, although we would like to visit Pompeii. Rome is a great place to spend time, if only to wander and people-watch.

Last but certainly not least it was great to be in Camallera with the family there, we will be back again as soon as we can.

Thanks for travelling with us, we will let you know when we set off again.

Kim & Mark