With only 7 days until our departure we thought it's probably time to get at least one page up and running....
A little bit of background....
Carolyn (Caz) & I (Georgina or G) went on our first overseas adventure together in 2009. We spent 3 months travelling to the UK, Ireland and Europe through a combination of independent travel and a couple of organised tours. We visited numerous places and upon return thought - there's still more we'd like to explore - so another trip was talked about and planned for 2013.
This time we are far more relaxed (very relaxed in fact.. so much so that we're only just realising that there's 9 days until we go!) so we haven't planned our adventure down to the last detail - we've just compiled a list of places we'd like to revisit or visit for the first time. We have a friend joining us for part of the journey (Caron) who wanted to go to Europe for her "x0th" b'day - her list of places to visit was quite similar to ours so for most of the time we'll be a party of 3 exploring the sights.
I've added a page called "Our Itinerary" where you can find all the places we're looking to get to over the next 7 weeks or so. If anyone has any must see, must do tips then please post them up - (as we're happy to take suggestions!)
Our trip planning has been quite an adventure in itself - most of you have probably heard about our dramas with the great flying kangaroo airline....for those who haven't - short version is "they" changed our flights about half a dozen times (due to their merging with Emirates) but on most occasions didn't tell us our flights had changed....I had to keep chasing them up.
Speaking of flights - we've treated ourselves to Business Class travel this time through using up our frequent flyer points. We travel from Adelaide to Singapore (& return) with Singapore Airlines and Singapore - Europe (& return) with a few airlines (British Airways & Emirates) thanks to the flying Kangaroo....we don't get on a Qantas plane once! We do get to travel on the return leg from Dubai to Singapore on a Emirates A380 in Business Class - something which G is really looking forward to.
The main highlights we're looking forward to are
- Returning to London (without visiting any Royal tourist sites),
- Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium for the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and Last Post Ceremony (G has a relative buried at Pheasant Wood (Battle of Fromelles))
- Eastern France (Champagne, Dijon, Beaune & Lyon)
- Barcelona
- Lake Como and
- Switzerland
We hope that you enjoy following our travels through this blog. It's my first attempt at writing one so bear with me as I update our adventures over the coming weeks. I will try to includes links for some of the places which might be of interest and of course there will be some pics put up too.
If you know of anyone who might like to read our blog please feel free to share it with them.
So stayed tuned..... I don't plan on any more updates until the 14th April (our departure date).
Until then....I think its time for us to start a list of things to do with 7 days to go!