The back story - why?

I have read lots of blogs recently and many seem to start in the middle of the story leaving me wondering why the people decided to do what they are doing.
This blog is aimed at family mainly and friends who want to see what we are up to... but perhaps it is interesting to understand why we have made this crazy leap into the unknown...

On holiday, sailing in Minorca, in 2007 we had a few drinks one evening (many of our stories start like this eg Las Vegas) and got to chatting about how rubbish work was and that we weren't enjoying living in London as much as we used to when we were young. We came to the conclusion that work was rubbish because work is rubbish and that we weren't enjoying London as much because we spent so much time travelling outside London to do things like sailing, skiing and horse riding. In addition the noise at night and having neighbors so close was starting to bother us in our old age.

We decided there and then that we would GO!!
But where??