We promised many of you that we would get a blog running to keep those of you who care, or feel obliged to show an interest, up to date with our travels. The last week has all been a blur of adventure, mostly fun but sometimes traumatic! I had done a lot of reading on India and Nepal as well as spoken to many friends who have travelled here before but it seems that nothing was to prepare me for this strange and wonderful land! Hamish, having travelled here before as well as being generally more chilled out than me, is taking it much more in his stride and is noticing the change since he was here in 2000.
For those of you who have only just found out that we are off travelling for a year this is the rough plan, subject to change should the wind take us:
India travelling mainly in the south - until mid October
Nepal, to trek the 20 day Annapurna circuit - mid October until early November. Hamish will then stay on for five weeks to do a mountain medicine course and I will return to NZ via Hong Kong for a week.
New Zealand to spend Christmas with my family - December
Zambia, working for a small charity based in Livingstone called 'On call Africa'. H will be doctoring and I will be helping run health education programmes in remote areas without access to health care. - early January until the end of April
Indonesia, I am still not 100% sure what we are doing out there, I think H is keeping it from me so that I don't object. We will be based on the Mentawi Islands for a month then might get some surf action - May to June
Mongolia, buying some horses and living like nomads for a while and then travelling overland back to the UK - July/ August time
September time we will return to the UK for a few weeks before heading back to NZ for the remainder of the medial year to work.
We would love people to come and join us for a holiday if you are up for it. While in Zambia we plan to do a horse riding safari in Botswana as well as some regular safari in Zambia. Livingstone is right by Victoria Falls so on the edge of Namibia and Zimbabwe so it should be awesome.
Indo will be another good time to come join us living it simple in a beach hut with green faced waves to keep the surfers happy and beautiful sunshine to keep the tan looking good.
We will try and update this blog as often as internet permits, but as I am sure you will understand once you have escaped the lifestyle living constantly on phones and internet it's quite hard to drag yourself into a cafe to put up a post!
Jeffy and Hamish xxx
For those of you who have only just found out that we are off travelling for a year this is the rough plan, subject to change should the wind take us:
India travelling mainly in the south - until mid October
Nepal, to trek the 20 day Annapurna circuit - mid October until early November. Hamish will then stay on for five weeks to do a mountain medicine course and I will return to NZ via Hong Kong for a week.
New Zealand to spend Christmas with my family - December
Zambia, working for a small charity based in Livingstone called 'On call Africa'. H will be doctoring and I will be helping run health education programmes in remote areas without access to health care. - early January until the end of April
Indonesia, I am still not 100% sure what we are doing out there, I think H is keeping it from me so that I don't object. We will be based on the Mentawi Islands for a month then might get some surf action - May to June
Mongolia, buying some horses and living like nomads for a while and then travelling overland back to the UK - July/ August time
September time we will return to the UK for a few weeks before heading back to NZ for the remainder of the medial year to work.
We would love people to come and join us for a holiday if you are up for it. While in Zambia we plan to do a horse riding safari in Botswana as well as some regular safari in Zambia. Livingstone is right by Victoria Falls so on the edge of Namibia and Zimbabwe so it should be awesome.
Indo will be another good time to come join us living it simple in a beach hut with green faced waves to keep the surfers happy and beautiful sunshine to keep the tan looking good.
We will try and update this blog as often as internet permits, but as I am sure you will understand once you have escaped the lifestyle living constantly on phones and internet it's quite hard to drag yourself into a cafe to put up a post!
Jeffy and Hamish xxx
Hi both - just to say am really enjoying reading your blog posts so don't become completely technophobic!
ReplyDeleteAm very jealous that you are about to do the Annapurna circuit - I did that on my gap yah, as H knows, and it was amazing! We did get trapped in a very small village called Brahtang for a few days due to surrounding avalanches so think of us (Antonia and me) cowering in our tent when you pass through! Lots of love, Fran xxoxo