This final blog has been several days coming, but we have been getting over a bug we picked up on the flight home, been to a funeral in Sydney, and have been trying to adjust to the return to "normal" living after visiting seven countries, 30 cities and towns and walking almost 300 kilometres. The overall title of our blog is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the recent ABC TV series "Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe", where Kevin retraces the footsteps of the young 18th/19th century aristocracy who, in their "gap year", travelled through Europe to the Mediterranean to see the architectural wonders of the world. We have also seen many of those wonders, including the Acropolis in Athens, the Colosseum in Rome, the Cathedral in Toledo and the Mezquita in Cordoba. But we have also seen many sights and had many experiences that, although not so grand, have made an indelible imprint on our memories, including the friendly merchants in the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul, the short stretch of beach where ANZAC troops landed at Gallipoli, the old Roman theatre in Volterra (Tuscany), the thousands of little tortoises in an enclosure at Madrid Atocha Railway Station. We could go on. We have been privileged to see all these marvels and we have not just been bitten, but have been seriously and permanently infected, by the travel bug. Next - save madly for the next adventure.
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