A Plan Comes Together

How do you plan a world tour?

Set yourself some ground rules. Mine were:
Decide how long we’re going for
Decide what dates we’re going
We need to avoid war zones
We need to avoid areas prone to natural disasters

Admittedly, the last two points rule out half of the globe, but we at least want to try and plan to make it back to the UK in one piece.

Sitting down, I came up with a rather loose plan which encompasses Australia, a move up to Malaysia, onto Thailand, jump into Nepal and fly down to Goa in India before returning home. Simple.

So now we know where we’re going when do we do it? Well it seems sensible to visit the Southern Hemisphere whilst it’s their summer and our winter so we plan to leave on 5^th Jan and look to return at the end of April.

Right – so the biggest part of the trip was Australia and we decided that we need to work (we have to fund our combined alcohol problem somehow!) To work means we need a work visa so a few minutes online (and £90 each) and the Australian Government have allowed us a Working Holiday visa – Great Success

I priced up a few flights on Opodo, used the Lonley Planet website for living costs and we now have a rough cost for the 4 months that we plan to be away.

Total Cost at this point for food, accommodation and Travel is estimated £5200 each – Ouch!!

Dave