Flying home alone from a stay at the stunning Villa Sanur in beautiful Bali I had a couple of glasses of wine and came up with a plan to follow my dream to spend a year in England. The plan looked like this:

1. Contact people with holiday lets who might agree to have us long term. Important: do it off Airbnb to save fees and get a better price.
2. Make appointments to view the most suitable in May 2018.
3. Travel to UK in May 2018 and choose our ‘home’.
4. Move to the UK for as long as we could in March 2019 returning early 2020.

It was a simple plan with many complicating factors that came up as we pursued our dream. I will address some of the challenges we faced in a later post. But for now ………

We are excited and proud to say that having written and rewritten hundreds of “to do” lists, made dozens of phone calls and overcome lots of obstacles, we are about to make my dream, enthusiastically adopted by Jim, a reality.

On March 31^st 2019 we fly off to England to begin Jim and Frankie’s Amazing UK Gap Year Adventure.