505 days

Heading for the airport and our flights to Cape Town via Doha with Qatar Airways.

72 weeks since we arrived back on our repatriation flight.

Definitely out of practice, packing seemed to be a chore and we're not travelling light.

However, we're ready to go in lots of ways. I'm sure SA will throw up it's own challenges but it'll be good to leave Nicola and Boris and their respective dysfunctional circuses behind us. 

Hope that the predictions of doom and gloom are as inaccurate as some of SAGE forecasts.

Any bets on the next targets for panic buying - hope you've all got plenty of candles, Christmas crackers and of course wine and whisky.

Our first visitors are all ready booked in and Linda's been busy organising the social calendar.

Watch this space and stay safe and well.