Whoops, so the blog got off to a bit of a spluttery start. Never mind, I shall rectify this immediately. I am back and I shall come back regularly.
I have been absorbed in figuring out a travel plan for our slow route home. The trouble is - this one never tires - that there are so many places we want to go and we are the laziest travellers on earth so we have relatively little time allocated and must at all costs avoid over-committing ourselves.
The boundaries of our trip have been set by the end of Matt's current project (1 April - which neatly coincides with our 10-year anniversary of being in Blighty and which could cause a serious existential meltdown had we not fixed our exit plan in concrete) and the beginning of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in September. Sadly, this is true. Matt will call me unpatriotic for saying so.
Initially we planned on heading back via North and South America but two of our best friends, Em & Jon, are getting married in Sweden in August. So, we are doing a loop and then flying home - and as the opportunity has presented itself, we're slipping in a little summer travel in Europe.
With minimal input from Dodge other than a request to go to Vancouver, Brazil and Argentina and to be home in time for the World Cup, I have booked our flights.
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Vancouver: 2 weeks
Mexico: 4 weeks
Cuba: 1 week
Colombia: 3.5 weeks
Brazil/Salvador: 10 days
Brazil/Rio: 1 week
Argentina: 2 weeks
Then we have about six weeks to kick around Europe before our friends' wedding and then we board our one-way flight home!
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