Girls just wanna have fun!! In Khiva.  Hello, it's been a while - Happy New Year! The change from teaching to traveling has been reasonably smooth. And very exciting. In 2025 I was tour leader for 2 x 14 day tours of Uzbekistan in March and April, and in November, I led 2 x 7 day tours of Istanbul. Working with  Aahilya Holidays  has been the new opportunity I didn't know I needed. It has changed how I feel about myself, I feel more confident . . and able! Getting older is interesting, the things we worried about when we were younger hold less importance. We have different worries now, our knees and backs and occasionally, our memory!! And for me, my confidence. Who was I if I wasn't a tutor anymore? Did I have any value? Working and traveling with Isha from Aahilya Holidays really opened up my world, literally. Isha and me in Istanbul I discovered that all the years of teaching different groups of adults was a brilliant training for managing the groups of excited guests ...