Changes already

One of the things that we knew when we decided to do this is that we would have to keeping changing our travel around to suit a variety of constraints. Well, one big constraint is cost. Another one is climate. So although we were going to do a full spin as Gyan wrote in his original entry, our travel plans have since changed.

Our idea of going around one-way became difficult to pull-off due to the cost of flying from Sydney (or somewhere near there) to Santiago (or somewhere near there). So we basically gave up on getting to Chile this time around. We've been to South America and flights from LA are reasonable when you go off-season so we decided this wasn't a bad choice to have to make. Another idea, which seemed good when we came up with it was that of traveling from London to Morocco through Spain in January. But after talking to some friends/family and reading up on the weather, seemed to suggest that it was not the best of ideas. So, instead, we'll do Spain/Morocco/Turkey/Greece/etc. when we have finished Southeast Asia/Australia. See here's our new plan.

We're now flying into London (12/31/08) and bring the new year with a hopefully teetotalling pilot and arrive in London on 1/1/09. After a brief pause (5 days) and a plenty of cold London weather, we fly on to Singapore (warm, balmy, tropical). We plan to use Singapore as a base for further travels within Southeast Asia... After a month and half, (before Jeev's birthday - 17/2/09) we fly to Sydney. We have given ourselves around 1 month before heading back to London (March 18th). We hope to do most of the south-eastern part of Australia, see New Zealand and maybe take a train or too going up the coast.

But hang tight as this plan may change yet. With the changes coming such rapid fire, all bets are off, eh?

Here's some interesting travel planning trivia: Direct round-trip flight between London and Sydney (without a stopover) was almost twice as expensive as doing the stopover for a month in Singapore and still going to Sydney. Go figure!?