{"id":9330,"date":"2014-06-25T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2014-09-21T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:26:53","slug":"tales-trip-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from a Trip Home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5755\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9335\"><img data-attachment-id=\"9335\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5755\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1403342617&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.784&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1-IMG_5755\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9335 pp_post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_5755\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5755-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Home&#8221; again after a hectic few days in London&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I love <em>really<\/em> going home, I honestly do, right down to the feeling that I can only describe as the big &#8220;expat knot&#8221; &#8211; a permanent feature in the pit of quite a few of our stomachs I should imagine &#8211; unravelling and unwinding itself as soon as I step off the plane on to home territory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s probably familiarity more than anything else, people, places (although my favourite skyline is changing rapidly, I will get to the top of The Shard one day!), and fond memories of a life time ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So here are a couple of pictures of my favourite place. Sadly there aren&#8217;t as many as I hoped there would be as I didn&#8217;t to have time for the wander that I had dreamt about in between catching up with family, shopping (my case containing all of this precious English cargo is still stuck at Heathrow somewhere however, thanks to a baggage system failure &#8211; along with 9,000 belonging to other people!), and of course speaking at BritMums Live (I didn&#8217;t win this year&#8217;s travel category by the way, but it was nice enough to get to the finals), alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelperspective.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Keenan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simoncalder.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Simon Calder<\/a>, and my friend Trish Burgess of <a href=\"http:\/\/mumsgoneto.blogspot.de\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mum&#8217;s Gone To<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0To those of you that attended our session, thank you! \u00a0I hope you enjoyed it and picked up a few tips &#8211; even if it&#8217;s not to use too many exclamation marks!! (I might have done those last two on purpose)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5752-001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9336\"><img data-attachment-id=\"9336\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5752-001\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5752-001.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1403341812&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1-IMG_5752-001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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src=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5745-001.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_5745-001\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5745-001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5745-001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-ascot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9338\"><img data-attachment-id=\"9338\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-ascot\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-Ascot.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-Ascot-720x540.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-Ascot-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-Ascot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5741-001-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9339\"><img data-attachment-id=\"9339\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/1-img_5741-001-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"733,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1403299693&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1-IMG_5741-001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011-274x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011-720x785.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9339 pp_post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011-720x785.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_5741-001\" width=\"720\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011-720x785.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011-274x300.jpg 274w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1-IMG_5741-0011.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, give me a day or so and I will be back on track&#8230; Until then!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share me:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-9330\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/tales-trip-home\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-9330\" 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