We never thought we'd get there !!

With 5 days to go before Departure - we are on the organisational home straight with more than 80% of the plans "done and dusted".

We are getting married on the day of our choice, February 29, despite the German Civil Service, although it was very much touch and go until ten days ago. Apparently brinkmanship with other peoples' lives is what Karlsruhe likes? Actually Germany does not like to make it easy for people to get married, even has a marriage tax - a strange choice and policy. In time we will write up the whole farce story for the Press. To give you a taste of things the German Administration even decided that they needed to homogogate Graham's 1981 divorce which they felt had not been correctly pronounced by the French courts. Uggggggg!!

Itinerary

March 1: start from Paris

March 2-5: Dubai
March 5 - 17: India (Delhi, Agra, Goa, Mumbai)
March 18 - 30: Vietnam
March 31 - April 2: Hong Kong
April 3 - 19: Australia (Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Ayers Rock, Melbourne)
April 20 - 27: New Zealand
April 28 - May 5: Chile (Santiago de Chile and Patagonia)
May 6 - 13: Argentina (Buenos Aires and the Iguazu Falls)
May 14 - 17: Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro)
May 18: return to London