Coming home

Hello readers... so, after a long and often emotional debate, we have decided that the two robberies have really taken it out of us (in more ways than one) and despite trying to come to terms with the experience we have finally admitted defeat.


For us and despite reassurances from so many people here, the island will never be the same again. Everywhere we go we find ourselves looking to see if someone is carrying one of our missing bags, or wearing one of our watches or V's jewellery. We don't feel confident to leave the house for any length of time for fear of coming back and finding that someone has been through our stuff again, if not the first culprit but some other Ali Baba who has popped out of nowhere to look for something to steal and sell for a few euros.


We have told our landlords and have given notice that we will be leaving by the 1st September.

Flights are booked, taxi from the airport arranged and I am in the midst of packing between bouts of sunbathing. We are also looking for somewhere to rent in the Portsmouth area but V and I can't agree on where exactly. She would like Chichester and I favour Portsmouth. In practical terms the rents are lower in Portsmouth and you get more for your money whereas in Chichester it is slightly higher... we also have travel tokens to spend in Portsmouth!!

It's a sad end to plan that just went wrong on so many unforseen ways, the falling £, the falling Interest rates and the rising costs here on an already over priced island.

We land at Gatwick on the 28th August and will be staying in Cosham so make sure the weather has improved by the beginning of September!!