Exnorthumbrian

Thanks so much for your comments MarisaWright and BluFlu. Sorry for the delayed response. I dropped off after the change in plans. But now New plans - hoping to get there in July 2022 after retiring finally at 72 1/2min June next year. Plans were delayed due to the travel chaos everywhere - hopefully will be more settled then as we would be bringing our 2 dogs across with us. And yes we will be re-settling in UK after getting last 2 20+ Year-old kids on their journey to a career (teaching and engineering apprenticeship) after the Covid years. I don’t think we can put off going back any longer given my age and whilst it has been good financially to extend my working life , I feel it will be time to explore retirement ( a bit frightening) and plan more travel from a UK base. We both have our families in UK , all getting on and also friends there are slowly passing away. Time to move. We moved last year to Tasmania (from Mornington Peninsula) , south of Hobart to lovely house with an ocean view . We will miss that. And the 3 adult kids we will leave behind. But we we feel it is the beginning of “our” time now after long, hard careers, small businesses and bring up 3 kids. Time to get planning!

Well I was intending to go to UK next year to claim my delayed pension ( I will be 71) and worked in Australia prior to 2001 - but I guess that’s not worth doing now. I mean , it’s still worth going to UK to see family but not worth trying to claim - now.