We’ve been back home now for a couple of days following our trip to Australia. Overall we have driven about 8000km in 8 weeks, and I have sketched out our approximate route below.

Whilst we were away the temperature was rarely below 30 degrees C and although during our time in Australia there were bush fires, cyclones and floods we managed to pick our way around these and not get directly involved, although we did need to change our plans on occasion to accommodate!

We now have a couple of weeks before heading across to Wales for Easter and some mountain biking. Having not  been on a bike for 2 months and partaken of a few too many aussie beers and wines some training rides are called for.

After Easter we plan to head off in our van again. Originally we had planned to go up through Scandinavia, however after seeing temperatures in Oslo of -15 I think this requires a rethink!

I did have the idea of trying to persuade Sharon to take our skiing and snowboarding gear and maybe head down to the Alps to catch the end of the season but I think a camping ski trip will be a hard sale!

We will have a think over the next couple of weeks and come up with a plan – we’ll let you know……