Our 9.30pm flight from Rome to Abu Dhabi was scheduled to be 6 hours but took less than 5. I was hoping that boded well for the second flight to Sydney, but that is over 13 hours 😩

Abu Dhabi airport is set out very well, but everything is very expensive! They still have their Christmas tree up, the last one we will see for another 10 months I guess.

We have all had a wonderful time and seen, experienced and learnt a lot, The kids are going home to create a Google form so we can collect the statistics on everyone’s favourite things: food, accommodation, tour guide, top three cities etc. I’m sure there will be some graphs to add in to this blog once they have collated the data! 😂

It has been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend so much time together in such a large group, and thankfully we have done it well with few issues. We doubt we will be able to get all the kids to take such a long period of time off all at once again now they are moving into tertiary study and full-time work, so we do appreciate what we have managed to achieve. For those of us a little closer to retirement though, we are dreaming about a few more trips…..