Introduction

Hello and welcome to our blog.

Having decided to leave teaching for a while and go travelling round the world, Gill and I thought it might be fun to chronicle our adventures using a web log. Under the circumstances, we decided, it might be judicious to start the blog before we go for two main reasons; the first to get some practice in and secondly because it might be of interest to read about the planning and preparation that goes into having a joint mid life crisis at the tender age of thirty two. To this end we’ll try to update the blog at least once a week to keep you up to speed with how we are progressing.

We know that the blog will be read primarily by family and close friends keen to keep an eye on our progress, however, because of our jobs and the manner of our departure it is possible that less familiar acquaintances may also wish to view our escapades. With this in mind I am going to write in a style neither too formal nor too familiar in order to cater for all tastes. Although I imagine that when Gill posts a message, it will tend to be more chatty.

This is of course our first attempt at a blog so you’ll have to be patient with any glaring limitations on our part. If you find it in any way interesting, informative and/or entertaining then I think we will have succeeded in what we hoped to achieve here.

Until next time

‘be seeing you.