Eighteen years ago, Paul and I decided to travel for a year. We got a one way ticket to Amsterdam and landed right smack in the middle of a sea of orange. It was Queen's day.
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With no accommodation booked, we were just lucky to get a room. It was a different way of travelling then. You book hotels and places just by showing up or by phone. You figure out where you go by lugging a more than an inch thick Lonely Planet book around. Most of the websites were very simple HTML pages.
I still haven't counted the number of countries we've been to... We travelled for more than a year. Below, the countries that we've visited over the years are in blue. Hoping to add to that and to our understanding of the world.
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This time around, we're just travelling for six months. We got laptops and one phone. (You probably know that Paul's still a phone luddite :-). Our backpacks have wheels!! :-)
I've been trying to figure out how to keep in touch - whether facebook, twitter, instagram. Some countries block certain websites. For now, we'll do it old style - via blogging. :-) So check this site out once in a while when you're bored!
"Love long and prosper." -- Spock