If you could take six months off to travel after all your hard work, where would you go and what /whowould you take?
Now, that would be a great prize! Anyone want to start sponsoring it?!
Cities and wildlife get me going. Think I'd bunny-hop around Central and South America with girlfriend, laptop and camera... maybe start in Costa Rica and end up in Buenos Aires, seeing a bit of the Pantanal somewhere in the middle. I'd have to upgrade from my dodgy point-and-click compact cam though. Was drooling over the posh ones in the London National Geographic shop the other week
Nathan Midgley Web editor, Travel Weekly
Now I have to factor a toddler into the travelling equation, I think I would spend six months going around the US. From a practical point of view would be easy and I'm sure we would all be cozy in a huge camper van!
I haven't written off going travelling again for a few months at some point - just need to work out how and when!!
Apparently, some people are being paid to take time off - if only it was that simple in Travel World eh?!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/6005956/Do-you-dare-take-a-sabbatical.html
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I know, getting 30% of salary to tide you over would be great, but am not sure it is like that for most people! I would want the guarantee of my job when I returned but not sure whether employers offer that - it makes you wonder, if they can do without someone doing your job for six months, do they need you at all?
London to Singapore by train would be my ideal journey or buy a Land Rover and take a slow drive to Cape Town.
We actually sell a tour that lasts 171 days called the Circuito. A circumnavigation of South America from Quito to Quito on a big yellow overland truck. We sell a few each year so there are some jammy bggrs out there!
Having traveled to Australia for 10 months, seen the beauty of this wonderful continent, it would be my first choice to see the sights that I missed first time around but to experience something new, I would like to visit USA as a nature lover on a self drive tour. I would take the latest, best zoom Camera, lots of memory and comfortable walking shoes and my ipod. My idea of heaven. No make up, no heels, just walking, hiking, camping and driving with my favourite music playing for sing -along. (I am tone deaf by the way but do believe the music enriches the soul)