Full circle

Forty-five days, nine flights, four currencies, eight languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Konkani, Hindi, Turkish, Hebrew and Arabic) and thousands of kilometres later, we are back where we started from...tired and weary but not yet in bed - just the way we began our adventure!

Our flight to Perth touched down on time at 3:30pm, but by the time we went through immigration and customs it was past 5:00pm (Shanks had a little seed collection to declare, consisting of date palms, holm oaks, carobs and avocadoes pilfered while we were in Israel). Unfortunately they were all seized, but the customs inspector was very helpful and told Shanks the best way to get such things through next time.

It was a bit strange to be back in our own home at first - everything looked a bit odd - but soon enough we were right back in the comfort zone - eating a delicious Indian meal prepared by my mum and relaxing on the couch watching The Bill (some things will never change!).

Tomorrow we will unpack and progressively start getting ourselves back in order again...both of us will have to start work again shortly (Shanks' boss even tried calling him when we were in Israel!). But right now, we may have a quick look through some of our photos and go to sleep with very pleasant memories circulating in our tired brains!

Good Night!