Being an adventurous sort, the thought of travelling has always held great appeal. When I was a young I didn't have the time or the money to go travelling. I was too busy training to be an Engineer. When in my thirties I was now earning plenty, but of course did not have the time, plus there was the thought "if I go on holiday, think of all the money I will be loosing" This was always the dilemma: when you have the time you have no money and when you have money you have no time, and the two are mutually exclusive. | My chance came in 2001. One of the start up companies I had been involved in had folded or was about to. I also had my house up for sale in Tetbury when suddenly I got a buyer and completed the sale quickly. The agent spent nearly all afternoon with me trying different options, and by the end of the afternoon I had a purchased a round the world ticket that would last a year and allow travel to four continents with four internal trips per continent, 16 flights around the world for the grand total of £1700. I left that August on my great adventure. My rough en-route flying route was as follows: London - Rio - Santiago - Sidney - Auckland - Cape Town - Nairobi - London. | This doesn't include side trips overland and other internal flights I took, but gives the jist of the trip which basically covered the southern hemisphere. I was away about 8 -9 months and had a great adventure. I have a write up somewhere but need to find it and will then put it on here since my memory of the trip is fading. Later in the mid 2000's I spent several months roaming around the old Eastern Europe and attempted starting a software company out there. I still have the travel bug and would love to travel down through Central America into South America and do the bits I missed last time, then island hop across the pacific, up through the Philippines and Indonesia, China, Asia, Russia and then back through Scandinavia.
Stop press: dreaming of China. A good web site I found is Travel Dave |
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