Some people say – why not sail around the world? Or travel by camper the whole way, or perhaps tuk tuk? Nope, sad to say the only way we could go where we wanted to go was on numerous flights….sorry carbon footprint. We looked into buying round the world packages but they were too restrictive for what we had planned, so single flights all the way was the best thing, mostly on budget airlines. Flying in and out of different countries, making a holiday out of the internal journeys of each place, that’s been the general idea.

Everyone joked when they saw our picture of all the bags we had with us at Grosvenor House – we had intentionally booked a big baggage allowance (40 kg each, so 160kg in total) for our first flight to Sri Lanka, as we had a lot of things to donate to Prithipura Infant Home. It meant we could bring car seats for the girls to use for the first two weeks as well as towels, snorkels and a few other bits and bobs we would need to leave behind before getting our next flight. For the rest of the trip we had three check in bags between us.

Leaving Dubai from Terminal 2 felt a little strange, thanks for the lift Danny C, but we were welcomed by the Fly Dubai team (mainly because of our team Egerton World Tour t-shirts!) and even managed to grab a coffee and crisps.

Watching the sun set from the tarmac as we boarded the plane, taking the 18.55 flight to Colombo. One chapter was closing and our adventure was beginning. Excited, nervous and contemplative, we were finally ready.