In case you were wondering, I'm not still down that mine. The trip has finally ended, it's just taken a while for us to wrap this up. We left Bolivia in early April taking in one last tourist attraction - real life dinosaur footprints! Then we headed back to Sao Paulo where it was still raining. Very hard. From Sao Paulo it was only a 12-hour flight back to Heathrow's shiny new Terminal 5. Here we saw the bleary eyes and frayed nerves (can you see frayed nerves?) of staff who had probably spent the past week dealing with angry travellers. We heard one German man confronting a Heathrow operative with the warning, 'I can get a little spicy'. He had just taken a picture of something and they wanted him to delete it. Terminal 5 still had some problems but they didn't hold us up and we got back to Manchester where we kicked back and relaxed by unpacking lots and lots of boxes.
Considering that this blog could have been called 'Look at us and our fantastic year-long holiday', I'm surprised so many people have taken the time to look at it and send us comments. So thanks very much for that, it was much appreciated.