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I've just given Passepartout a heart-attack 
The engines are spooling up for the next holiday in the skies, where I'll go twice around the world in 40 days. That is, great circle mapper total flown distance of 50,116 miles / 80,636 kms vs the circumference of the earth of 24,901 miles / 40,075km
Fortunately, most of it is in business, on a OneWorld RTW ticket. QF, AA, QR, BA, JL, CX and UL, with side trips in whY on AZ and AI. In all, about 64 individual bookings of hotels, flight sectors, tours.
Bit of a mixed bag, this trip.
A few cultural/historical wants to be ticked off, such as Sardinia, Israel, Ajanta and Ellora caves/temple complexes in India and, of course, the ancient cities in Sri Lanka (plus some recovery in Galle). A few more done via whistle-stops, such as Himeji Castle in Japan and a couple of days in the south of France. Oh, the Millau Viaduct while I'm there.
The USA part is a bit of a status run; I have a good mate to visit in New York but I've been there numerous times, so not much sight-seeing beyond the Freedom Tower, Sept. 11 Museum, and the Brooklyn bridge, and a bookstore, but mainly its a good DSC earn SYD-LAX-JFK
England is to visit the UK Archives in London and archives in Berkshire and Birmingham, as part if my uni studies.
Five weeks I think is the longest I've ever been away on a non-work trip, so we'll see how I go. Highlight I'm expecting to be Sri Lanka, lowlights I'm expecting to be six arrivals/departures through LHR.
As usual, AFFers have facilitated this trip - hat tips to @Pushka @Daver6 @RB @JohnM @JessicaTam @Milboo and @Jacques Vert . Getting good tips and guidance makes planning these sorts of trips so much easier - thanks!
The engines are spooling up for the next holiday in the skies, where I'll go twice around the world in 40 days. That is, great circle mapper total flown distance of 50,116 miles / 80,636 kms vs the circumference of the earth of 24,901 miles / 40,075km
Fortunately, most of it is in business, on a OneWorld RTW ticket. QF, AA, QR, BA, JL, CX and UL, with side trips in whY on AZ and AI. In all, about 64 individual bookings of hotels, flight sectors, tours.
Bit of a mixed bag, this trip.
A few cultural/historical wants to be ticked off, such as Sardinia, Israel, Ajanta and Ellora caves/temple complexes in India and, of course, the ancient cities in Sri Lanka (plus some recovery in Galle
). A few more done via whistle-stops, such as Himeji Castle in Japan and a couple of days in the south of France. Oh, the Millau Viaduct while I'm there.The USA part is a bit of a status run; I have a good mate to visit in New York but I've been there numerous times, so not much sight-seeing beyond the Freedom Tower, Sept. 11 Museum, and the Brooklyn bridge, and a bookstore, but mainly its a good DSC earn SYD-LAX-JFK
England is to visit the UK Archives in London and archives in Berkshire and Birmingham, as part if my uni studies.
Five weeks I think is the longest I've ever been away on a non-work trip, so we'll see how I go. Highlight I'm expecting to be Sri Lanka, lowlights I'm expecting to be six arrivals/departures through LHR
.As usual, AFFers have facilitated this trip - hat tips to @Pushka @Daver6 @RB @JohnM @JessicaTam @Milboo and @Jacques Vert . Getting good tips and guidance makes planning these sorts of trips so much easier - thanks!
