For reasons that are, I'm sure, totally valid, I've somehow managed not to recount this trip in any sort of linear fashion.  These things happen sometimes.  Some days it was a choice between 'some sort of blog post' or 'nothing at all because figuring out how to write about what happened after whatever I wrote about last time sounds too hard right now,' and something won out over nothing.  I hope you don't mind.  It does mean I have to do a bit of a jump now though, but I didn't want to neglect to tell you about some of [...]