Life on land for our first Christmas in many a year in Blighty England.

Primitive hall 53.13.32 N  1.50.03 W

All those years away and so many things changed for our return, no Woolworths for last minute Santa toys. Fuel was 80p UK a litre when we last refuelled. Satellite car maps almost as good as our ocean gps autopilots. The supermarkets! Variety, availability and cheapness of food on a scale unimaginable in the south of the World.  All that and electricity comes out of the wall sockets with no generator!

After a tremendous summer of life in a camper van following the British Superbike circuits with Buildbase Hawk Kawasaki the first day of December surrounded us with a snow full of  Southern Ocean Shackelton memories. 

Caitland having a ball at senior school Repton, Morgause floating on clouds after the presentation of her Blue Peter Badge for ice berg survival. 

Family together we feel so privileged to be alive, to be back in England but most of all to have returned safe from a trip and adventure that has changed all our lives with memories from equatorial Amazon to Cape Horn. Pacific Robinson Crusoe Island to Patagonia & the South pole ice packs. Humpback Whales to crocodiles, barracuda and South American monkeys. Rainforest to glaciers, ice packs and shark reefs.

Most of all people and people so freindly all around the World who have made our memories so special.

Blighty winter is Southern Summer for us, when you put anti freeze in the toilet pans, that’s proper cold! Our ice gloves torn up with freeze burns remain on the mantelpiece.

God bless the Royal Navy, be sure to raise a glass of port after the Queens speech for Warship HMS Clyde and her crew for rescuing us.