Around The World In 2009 (well parts of it anyway)

Okay, so I’m thinking about my travel plans for 2010 and thinking I have to try and top 2009 but I’m not sure it’s going to be possible. 2009 was the mother of all years for travel! Here’s why:

January
1 week in Cuba – Havana & Varadero

March
Long weekend in Scotland – Stirling


April (Easter weekend)5 nights in Italy – Rome & Venice

May
3 nights in Hong Kong
11 days in Thailand – Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui

July
8 nights in Barbados

August
4 nights in Prague

October
3 nights in Dublin

December
8 nights in Russia – Moscow & St Petersburg

Yip. It’s going to take some doing to beat that … but I’m up for the challenge. Bring it on 2010!












Comments

  1. michphil25 January 2010 at 14:18

    You better get your skates on if you want to beat last years' globe-trotting :-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. V26 January 2010 at 02:09

    O de sweet, sweet sugarcane...

    What's the first stop for 2010 and how soon do you start to book your trips?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Silvano On The Go26 January 2010 at 03:43

    Right you are Mich. This time last year I already had one under my belt :)
    V, I'll post my plans for 2010 soon. Hope to book something soon.

    ReplyDelete
  4. andy gravett27 January 2010 at 03:41

    I have been to Johnnie Fox's pub near Dublin, very nice Dublin Bay Clam Chowder :-)

    ReplyDelete
  5. andy gravett27 January 2010 at 03:48

    On one recent project I went to NYC, would recommend it if only for three reasons, eating in Grand Central Station very nice and interesting place to visit, catching a NY Knick's game at Maddison Square Garden's and the Guggenheim Museum (excellent architecture and art) all well worth it if the budget allows.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Not just a stopover for the sake of it

It would seem as though in my haste to experience all things Japanese that I completely overlooked South Korea as a destination within itself. If only I had allowed for a few more days it could have been a mini off the beaten track holiday with its mountains and rice paddies and unspoilt islands. Anyway, be that as it may, my flights are booked and paid for so I have 3 nights, 2 full days in Seoul. Initially it looked like loads of time but I’m sure it’s going to go all too quickly. 3 nights, 2 days I’ll probably start with one of those city ‘orientation’ type walks to get my bearings, although I’m not encouraged by the fact that most streets in Seoul don’t actually have a name. It gets better – the buildings have numbers but they don’t run consecutively, they were allocated in the order in which they were built. So unless you were around at the time they were erecting the buildings…. no, I’m sure I’ll be fine. I am definitely going to visit the DMZ and Panmunjom. At first I thought it...
Read more

Memories of Moscow

Image
Finally got around to uploading photos from my last holiday. Oh the memories; good and bad. Planning Russia was probably the most complicated holiday I ever booked. Not that many travel agents specialise in Russia and the few that do seemed intent on selling me a group tour. Not against group tours but prefer to do my own thing in my own time. Booked flights directly with BA, into Moscow out of St Petersburg – easy enough. Hotels there are all overpriced in my opinion but managed to get a slight discount booking them via an agency. Actually I managed to get the Kempinski in Moscow at a decent rate. The real headache was getting the visa and invitation letters so just used an agency which did it all – for a hefty fee of course. But I still had answer the reams of questions ranging from a list of all the countries I’d visited in the last 10 years to information on any specialised skills I possessed in nuclear matters or biological chemicals! And I still had to ‘register’ my visa when I g...
Read more

Reykjavik (Nov 2015)

Image
This was my first time travelling with Iceland Air and it wasn’t that different from BA short haul flights. My flight landed just before 4pm as the sun was starting to set. The sky was an amazing colour with a lovely green glow. From the airport to the Blue Lagoon took about twenty minutes. Washing naked in front of strangers before putting on a swimsuit to enter the lagoon didn’t faze me as I’ve bathed naked in an onsen in Japan. Leaving the warmth of the shower, to walk into the freezing cold was another matter altogether! I kept my towel around me until the last minute and left it at the side of the lagoon. The water was amazing. A lot hotter in some areas than others but amazing. It was dark and there was limited lighting so once I reached the middle part of the lagoon it was like bathing in the dark. I was obliged to try the white, facial mud. I know everyone raves about it but it seemed to make no difference to my skin whatsoever. The cave and waterfall experience were bo...
Read more