We would visit our lovely friend Val in Plymouth, Cornwall, then up to the Highlands of Scotland, explore the Orkneys, down to London via Inverness and Edinburgh. Onwards to old friends in the beautiful Charente area of France. "Naturellement" there has to be a few days "dans la belle Paris", throwing in, as one does, an evening at Moulin Rouge...how could this not be so? Finally home via a week in Vancouver. What a trip we planned.
Alas and alors. As you, dear reader, may surmise, there have been complications, to understate the case somewhat!
"Val, you will need treatment soon", our Medical Lady advised, putting a dead stop to our real plans two months ago.
And now the whole world has come to a STOP. We are all locked down and house bound.
We won't be spending heaps of money travelling on our planned "Round the World" extravaganza ... "that's a big plus", we so convincingly tell ourselves.
BIG IDEA: House bound we are but the imagination can fly high.
We will take a beautiful, big virtual vacation over the next few weeks and follow as near as practical our intended itinerary. There must be heaps of videos and tourism propaganda in cyberland that we can access and share.
All you great Folk out there, you are invited to join us on our blog vacation; your kind comments and other ideas are most welcome along the way.
Val in Plymouth, get ready with your suggested outings (must be photo ops). Barb and Peter in Passirac, make ready your so comfortable guest gite once again and, perhaps, your fabulous cassoulet dinner. Pam and Ian in Brossac, make ready once again a wondrously tasty gammon, egg and fries banquet in your extraordinary man-cave.
Hooray. Virtual Take Off is in two days. Qantas Flight QF 51 leaves from Brisbane at 11:50am (a quite civilised hour, don't you think) arriving at Singapore 18:00pm. Two days later an evening departure with Lufthansa (flight LH 9763) giving us a lift to London via Frankfurt. That's the plan. Pre-virus price, $2,100 pp round the world with quality carriers: I think we will be whistling dixie to expect those prices post-virus!
Meanwhile this is about the town we now call home:
Link to our home town, Burrum Heads look here
Or a second look: a glimpse of our home town water front.
As this is a virtual tour, I think I might come too. I promise not to get in the way. When we get to Singapore, the zoo will be open and I am going to have breakfast with an orangoutang, you are welcome to join me. When we are in Europe, I want to visit Barcelona and see some of those amazing buildings designed by Gaudi - what an imagination that man had !!
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ReplyDeleteNot a bad place to be locked down even for a Queenslander, bit better than shivering Canberra, although for the good of the economy, Scomo and all his public servants are warming the place up with their hard(?) work! Mark
I love this idea! I'll be following!
ReplyDeletepeople who do not like Egg, lettuce,and Beetroot sandwichs, either have never try one or are stuck on the French michelin star food guide book. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the journey so far- Plymouth excursion suggests a yearning for a naval career? If so, this little ditty might help.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfao1s3Tiek
Even God is not around for a 23.55 pm boarding Flight. @$%#@
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