Tuesday 1 January 2019

Round the world without the camper van

We have decided to embark on a post retirement tour - also a winter avoidance strategy! - kind of a mini gap trip for oldies - we set off on Jan 1st and return March 8th.
We aim to travel by plane, car, campervan and cruise ship. Wish we were more techy savvy to include a map - but guess those of you really interested will access an atlas or look online. So itinerary is as follows...

Itinerary :- 

Jan 1st  Fly Heathrow to San Francisco
1st + 2nd San Francisco
3rd + 4th Monterey
5th Fly to Nadi Fiji
Lose a day travelling over the international date line
7th + 8th. Nadi
9th Fly to Auckland New Zealand
10th Pick up hire car
10th - 19th Explore North Island New Zealand
20th  Fly to Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand
21st Pick up hire car
21st- 30th Explore South Island, New Zealand
30th Fly to Adelaide, Australia,
31st pick up camper van.

31st Jan - 12th Feb, Travel coast road to Sydney 
13th Feb  Board cruise ship Norwegian Jewel in Sydney
14th Feb  in Newcastle
15th Feb at sea
16th Feb in Brisbane
17th Feb at sea
18th Feb in Airlie Beach, Whitsunday Islands
19th + 20th Feb in Cairns
21st + 22nd Feb at sea
23rd + 24th Feb in Darwin
25th Feb at sea
26th Feb Komodo Island
27th + 28th in Bali

1st March at sea
2nd March Semarang, Java
3rd March at sea
4th March arrive in Singapore am
4 - 6th March in Singapore
7th March Fly back to Heathrow

We are thankful that Ben and Fay live in London to allow us an overnight stop(free!) each end of our travels.Also a great excuse to see their adorable miniature schnauzer Engels!
This year we hope to have a relatively quiet New Years Eve to ready ourselves for our 1st of several long haul flights....
A proviso of travelling so far was that we have limited flying times  to no more than approximately 12 hours a flight - which also means we get to see more places!
Carol has had much pleasure researching and planning accommodation and various excursions - we look forward to sharing our experiences via this blog. We hope to post weekly as previous blogs - wi-fi access depending.
We arranged our round the world flight tickets via Travel Nation and can recommend them for their excellent service - thank you David!

So here we are am 1st Jan ready to go - with matching Tilley Hats ...... let the adventure begin!




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    1. Hi Richard, Good to hear from you, how are you doing these days?
      Hope all is well. As ever, if you are passing on the way to Bempton or wherever, do send me a mail and pop in for a coffee or wotnot.
      Best wishes, Graham

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