So, let the journey begin, almost anyway.

Some 25 years ago I decided that when I retired I would like to go to watch an Ashes Test in Australia so took out an investment policy to pay for the trip on which I am now about to leave at the end of November.

Hopefully, there will be a record of the trip in this blog over the next few weeks, though it will of course depend on access to WiFi for the iPad to enable me to write.

So bags are packed, weighed and ready, cameras tested and documents checked. It now remains to wait for departure at the end of next week with Hong Kong as a stop to break the journey to Perth and visit friends.

This concludes this brief test message and the main blog should begin shortly.