We seemed to be on a roll. After not travelling internationally together for eight years after our trips to Austria, Germany and France in 2005 and 2006, we went to Tahiti in 2014, then New Zealand in 2016 and finally undertook a longer expedition – to Scotland and Northern England in 2017. Somewhere in there I was sent to Fiji by work for a regional UNESCO meeting, but there had been a sparse few years as far as international roaming was concerned.
Making the most of it before we got too old – or before the world became too crowded
Now we were on the road again – making the most of it before we got too old – or maybe before the world became too crowded. This time we were off to Paris and Lyon and northern Provence, where temperatures had reached 38 degrees Celsius the previous day – it was just like flying into Adelaide.
Hanging out in Saint-Germain
Our trips to New Zealand in late 2016 and to Scotland and Northern England in August and September 2017 seemed to have involved lots of driving and many short term stays of two to three days – never enough to really see a place. On the first day you arrive, on the third you leave, so it leaves only one full day to get to know a place. If you are only staying for two nights, or even worse, one, you see hardly anything. The trouble was that we hadn’t been to New Zealand for more than a few days, and never to Scotland or Northern England, so seeing the country involved roaming widely – and even then, we only saw part of it.
