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Not really, I'm exaggerating the length of my absence. I saved a fortnight's holidays for Australia but didn't go in the end - so I've been using them up in odd days, long weekends etc. Had a great time. Spent the last long weekend in Holt in Norfolk and exploring the north Norfolk coast. Not too far from my neck of the woods, but the BF had never been to Norfolk so I was educating him in Norfolk ways, folk & scenery (well, not the whole lot - that would have been too much too soon.....!) He loved it. So much so that we have booked to go back & hire an idyllic romantic cottage for a week in May/June.