However this particular goodbye won't be too soapy (or dopey) because Aitch is already making plans to come over to Canada to visit Penny and I again next year. We can't seem to get rid of this bloke.
Many thanks Howard for putting your life on hold for our visit and making sure that we enjoyed our first visit to your beautuful country.
We would also like to thank Ron and Fran Viney for a great fairwell lunch that they put on for us today in their beautiful home.
The forum members and their extended families and friends that we have had the pleasure of meeting in this part of the world are are a credit to the populace of Australia and to the forum. Based on our travel experiences their hospitality has been beyond comparison. Thank you all. We hope you had as much fun as we did.
Brian and Penny have an 'earlyish' flight from Melbourne to Sydney tomorrow morning, so they are going to stay at a hotel at the airport tonight. The tears are already welling up....... 
