🎵 We’re leaving on a jet plane 🎵
Well here we are again. Heading out on the road.
Covid you kinda held us up a bit, but better late than never!
This adventure was planned about 6 months after I got home from our last trip. I was hopeful for 2022, but by the time Prime Minister Jacinda said no more MIQ, it was 6 weeks till I wanted to be leaving…and even with my epic planning and logistic skills, I just couldn’t pull that off!!
This time we’re away 15 weeks.
Europe, popping down into Morocco and on the way home we have a quick 11 hour stop over in Asia.
We haven’t rented our house this time, BK’s sister is looking after it, along with our cat/bunny/fish. We’ll call her SK for this blog!
The kids will be missing all of term 2. I’m not so stressed about their education this time. In fact I’m almost at totally and utterly unconcerned. Yes I just told the school how it was again, and yes they again told me I still had to pay, lucky I was expecting that!
We are hoping to get through about 25 country’s, some of the old favourites – England/France/Netherlands/Germany, and of course some new ones as I fill gaps on the bits of Europe we’ve missed.
By the time we get home I would have covered pretty much anywhere you want to go in Europe, so if you ever need advice for your own planning on what’s worth it or what’s NOT! Let’s connect to talk (hours of) travel tricks and tips!
I like vanilla thickshakes and long walks by the water 😝
Highlights I’m looking forward to :
🔅Getting on the plane and leaving!
🔅Morocco
🔅Portuguese Camino (the last 130km ish of it)
🔅A west end show in London
🔅Seeing familiar faces of family and friends
🔅Seeing a bit more of Eastern Europe – we absolutely loved Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia last time, what else you got to offer us Eastern Europe?
Yes, again, there’s a budget and yes I do plan to keep my family on the straight and narrow!
I’ve found airbnbs already to be a bit pricier than I would have liked but I’ve only booked the first 6 weeks and it’s city to city via public transport rather than getting out in the suburbs. Hopefully once we get into Eastern Europe with a car they’ll still be well priced and I’ll get great airbnbs for the price I’m willing to pay per night.
And everyone’s favourite question or interest…What about money? What about work?
This trip has been budgeted out and fully saved for!
My workload has been divided out amongst my team – thanks gals! I have 11 weeks of annual leave so will be on normal-ish pay the entire time I’m away. BK will be at half power with annual leave covering the rest of it.
What. A. Blessing.
So I’ll update you along the way. I’ll also schedule photos to pump through the Team Knowles Facebook page about 6.30am NZT
Everything runs a week plus behind for safety reasons but if you really want to know where I am, message me, or ask my Mum …she’s got the itinerary and tracks my phone! No she’s not joining us this time, yes she should be coming do the Portuguese Camino with us, I agree!
Right, that’s the first blog done! Let’s get this party started!
Till next time,
Claire