This is a continuation of the previous blog where I wrote that we spent our first day in Lisbon in Oriente. This is how it went.
Over a 3 month period in 2018 we travelled to 13 countries. We began our trip flying from Durban, via Istanbul, to Lisbon where we spent a week.
Just 30 days and then we are up, up and away to Lisbon, Portugal where we will spend a week on the first leg of our 3-month trip.
This is the perennial question. The more that we look at our itinerary we see that we will encounter extreme differences in weather patterns so the question is, “What and how to pack?”
As I begin this blog we have reached the countdown and today signifies we have just 117 days to ‘lift-off’ from King Shaka Airport, Durban to Lisbon, Portugal. 117 days may seem like plenty of time but, according to my Planning Page, there is still so much to be done.
When the idea of doing a really big trip was first mooted it sounded like fun and seemed easy as the ships and planes would take us to most places. A year later it is still fun but plenty of work, most importantly, applying for and receiving visas for every…
As mentioned briefly in my last blog about travel and medication, the 2 of us are planning an absolutely super long holiday from mid-August to mid-November, 97 days from start to finish. The planning for this holiday is significantly more complicated and more work but we know that it will…
Once again we, ourselves, are planning a wonderful trip and I shall keep my readers up to date on how the preparation is going, but more of that later.
Just 2 days left before we would be back in Swakopmund. We had enjoyed a wonderful holiday seeing more of Namibia than we ever imagined.
If one drives 340kms (210 miles) due east from Luderitz, along the straight road through the desert past the Wild Horses and Ais, you will arrive in Keetmanshoop. Another 13kms to the north will bring you to the Quiver Tree Forest and a group of rock formations known as the…