- Letting agents for taking our money and not giving much in return for the management of stuff we left back home. To Ernest for so kindly paying our mortgage whilst we were having the time of our lives.
- Brother Mike for removals in style.
- For Briggy for turning up with coffee mid-removals, kettle no where to be seen. The timing was perfect. You just can't buy timing
- Milo for the loan of the 'Subie'! I must pay you for those extra insurance costs.
- Mum and Dad Summers for long Skype calls. Given the length of our calls its no wonder Skype has had to sell out to Microsoft!
- Annette for sorting our blog slideshow with drop downs, long story, issues. We will never forget that joyous night in Clevedon, Somerset.
- Dean & Lou for being the best hosts ever. A time spent with you on your small island we will never forget.
- OG for warm longboard style waves. For the great sausage rolls and film night at number 19
- Thanks to Christine and her family for a free house in Balmain over Christmas and NY. An amazing act of generosity.
- To Lou Chip for sorting the free house. as without it we could have never stayed in Australia as long as we did!
- To the Tazzie lot who kept us laughing and going on the Routeburn Crossing.
- Gilly & Charlie for being instant new Bristol buds by just asking for a photo to be taken half way in on the Tongariro crossing. Quite possibly the only two that may be willing to look through all of our photos (come on you did promise!)
- Kelly & Ryan for showing us the sights of hectic Suva. Drinks at the calming yacht club are a forever on going memory.
- Ben Swanson, a ultra chilled and the honest Cornishman residing in Coolingatta, for returning our seemingly lost itouch. Ben we salute you.
- Dutch Raymond for great company and conversion and keeping us young whilst hopping the Yasawa Islands, Fiji.
- To Matthais & Rebeka for the possibility of first ever "sushi" in Stuttgart
- Dutch Richard & Carolina for going "dutch" on a waterproof camera and easing our great barrier nerves.
- Deutsche Fredeieka for just being so lovely and smiley.
- Our fixers Tushar and Sanjit for all the help and guidance through Sri Lanka's dodgy pot holed, elephant laden roads. Tushar we do hope your wedding went to plan ?
- To the "Colonel" for cricket banter and constant on going humour. Sorry it has rained so much at the recent tests!
- The Butler gang in Dunedin, this includes Toby & Magic, for keeping us safe on the wonderful Otago peninsula.
- The Mullers, ahhh the Mullers. For the introduction to hands-on, "just get in there you two", dairy farming and insight to real kiwi living. We will never forget our time with you way out west. Hopefully some day we will make it back to pick up where we left off.
- Vaughan for an easy going, but unbelievably hot, round of golf in Viet'nam. Good luck with future competitions and the management of Shades Apartments, Mui Ne.
- Mum Horrex for putting us up (yet again). You leap over Ernest when it comes to helping us, as again without your help, in many many ways, this trip would have never ever been possible.
- To Bernie & John for the spare room that easily slept 3! For the barefoot bowls lesson, Brisbane style.
- Danish Eva for dealing with Fe's massive amount of very red blood, know it sounds daft but it was sooo red, just typing this is making us feel wobbly at the knees, whilst walking in the Rockies. And to Niels for kind words of encouragement and supervision of the extremely efficient mountain rescue.
- To the Fijian villagers who stayed ultra calm and saved of from our tsunami fears.
- Sri lankan Milton, at the Young Men's Buddhist Association for the best haircut I have ever had. Now we are back I promise to print and put the pictures in the post!
- Rachel and David from Denver, a very short but truly memorable meet. Though time was short great conversion at the Pike Brewery. Give us a shout if you ever cross the pond!
- To all the Jon's on the Northshore, Ohau for making Fe's birthday great. Dads 65th birthday card did finally turn up!
- To Queens Canoes beach at Waikiki for constant, perfect shaped, longboard waves. These days touched us way beyond words or belief. Days again that we will never forget.
- Brian at our Seattle hostel for being so nice it made us homesick. Honestly he really did!
- To Adrian and Natalia at Hostel Regina DF, the worlds greatest hostel, for making us feel home from home some 5000 odd miles away from home.
- To Pepe, Gerson and Bento for showing us the real Mexico.
- To lovely Lilly and family at Casa Lilly, Vedado, Ciudad Habana. Cuba, for all the hospitality and fascinating conversion. Hope we didn't ask to many questions!
- And finally to Rob Osman. A new dad some 12 days prior but still picked us up from Heathrow. We always knew it was going to be a big moment for us but somehow seeing your smiley face there just helped us through. Great laughs and conversion which made the M4 to Bristol seem a very short journey.
We really do hope we haven´t forgotten anyone who helped make our trip so special.
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