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A former colleague when working in London has recently announced she is off travelling for an amazing 11 months with her husband. I’m very excited for them, although I have to say even 3 months was a long time to be away from family and friends and the home comforts, so I’m impressed they’re taking 11 months!

I’d suggested they consider setting up a travel-blog, much like I used this site for when travelling (The availability of internet terminals was a surprise). It saves writing lots of e-mails to folk. Let them come to a single location updated as you can. So I’m pleased to see that Natalie and Steve have done just that, and I look forward to reading about their exploits!

All of it of course makes me feel very envious! It seems so long ago that we were travelling ourselves (It’s almost exactly 18 months ago we set off). But I’m excited to say we’re already having thoughts about some trips in the near future, including Iceland (inspired by Dave and Sharon), China (inspired by my parents two trips), and returning to Japan. I’ve also become somewhat intrigued by Russia, particularly St. Petersburg.

I’m also trying to encourage Frances to consider South America – a sub-continent I’d not really considered until recently – my friend Stew visited Peru a couple of years ago, and reading descriptions such as Roger Darlington’s evokes a fascinating place full of interesting people, places, sights and history. Frances isn’t particularly keen, but then neither of us were keen on Japan until we found a company that gave us the right mixture of freedom to do as we wanted, with the comfort of knowing where we’d sleep that night!

I’m a free agent this weekend, and I might (finally) make an attempt to write up our trip to New Zealand. I keep saying I will do, but never do. Thankfully our photographs and my travel diary help immensely, that it’s easy to recall particular days!

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