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Wordup brothers. I'm booking my round the world trip next week. some questions to travellers:

where did you get your ticket?
how much was it?
how many miles was it?
could you choose your coutries yourself or did you have to take a template someone had sorted for you?

should i go to south america? I dont know if i can be arsed.

www.statravel.co.uk

not working for me. You?

works ok

ok its working now. you must have fixed it.

you going alone or with others?
how long for and when are you going?
you can choose your own destinations but i imagine they will suggest some places to go so that it's easier for travelling between different countries
where are you planning on going anyway? i'm going next july for a year but don't yet know where i wanna go

Im going with a mate. Planning to leave next August but I dont know how long i want to go for. thats why i want to know if there is a time limit you can use your tickets in.

I want to do... Thailan, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Figi, Brazil, USA, Iceland.

but i am open to suggestions.

All I know is that I want to be in Australia for Christmas so I can have a turkey on the beach.

and we might get a train round europe before we start doing the flying. That way we can work in bars and stuff to earn a bit more dosh without being in swindon.

has anyone travelled Australia?

Is it worth flying from the west to the East or is it better to drive, walk, swim, kangaroo it?

i thought this thread was going to be about an audacious yo-yo trick.

imagine my disappointment

I booked mine with trailfinders

http://www.trailfinders.com/bestbuys.nsf/rtw?openform&referer=uk&region=rtw

It cost £1050 including all airport taxes etc and I got free UK flights to and from Heathrow and 4 free internal flights in Australia  8)

You can change your travel dates at any time but you can't change your destinations.

good news spacy. how many miles did you get and how long ago was this? (im guessing your pretty old)

ooooooooooooh thats mrs spacey. Eeeeek sorry. Your not old

Cheeky  :evil:

I went 3 years ago and I dunno how many miles it was I didn't count but it was round the world Southeast Asia Australia NZ and USA so lots of miles.

Fly around Australia except for the East Coast as there's lots more to see and do there.

how do my countries sound to you? This is the rough time line


August: drive to france, germany, czech republich, some other gay eastern europe place.
Sept: work in these places
Oct: fly to Japan - Thailand - Vietnam
Decemeber: fly to OZ
Dec - Feb work in OZ
Feb - fly to newzealand and figi
april: fly to brazil
May: fly to Mexico, California, texas, new york, canada...
August: back to Swindon

Is that too long in each coutry?

You can always cross borders overland while in countries.

I'd suggest adding Cambodia and you'll be able to do a whole host of different Saarf American countries.

I suggest you watch Australia V England, while your in Aussie land. Xmas day test is exellent.

What about Finland.

people at work have suggested cambodia. Whats there apart from poor people?

Sounds like a good plan to me 8)

i'll be back just in time to see Swindon lift the League 2 championship

That all sounds splendid OJ, i hope to be doing something similar in the next couple of years. Where has Iceland disappeared to on your itinery though? Its always been a place that appealed to me for some reason

Most(all?) around the world tickets you can only go in one direction, and most appear to be a bit over a grand.

Japan and Iceland are both ridiculously expensive.  Cambodia has Angkor Wat and The Killing Fields(not so sure about the second myself).  You can also shoot M-16s or AK47s while lobbing hand grenades around.  You can probably do this in Vietnam as well, but Cambodia is on the way from Thailand anyway(no point flying), so you may as well have a look.

You'd may as well fly from Melbourne to the west coast, Adelaide is supposed to be a hole(most Austrailian cities are pretty dull tbh).  If you are looking at working while you move around, have a look at a WOOLFF(sp?) guide book.

Oh, and if you are training it around Europe, you can buy a ticket if you are under 27 that gives you unlimited train journeys for a certain period.


Hope this helps.  You'll have a wicked time :D

oh yeah, forgot to add iceland on the list. Its somewhere that Ive always thought looked cool. I want to go when there is a lot of light though.

I travelled around Europe and used this "unlimited train journeys". Its called Interrail.

http://www.interrail.net/web/index2.php4?language=en

It's very handy if you book overnight trains as well because you get a bed for near nothing.

I'm off soon too...

I've just sold my house and am waiting for completion...

My and the missus are leaving in mid-January and coming back in about July

Provisional itinery:
India - fl - Thailand - ov - Malaysia/Singapore - fl - Indo - fl- Australia - fl - NZ - fl - LA (USA) overland to NY - Home.

Not booked tickets yet, but considering the OneWorld Explorer to get some extra intra-continental flights enabling us to fly off the route to other places such as China/Japan in Asia, Fiji as part of Australasia and several bits of Canada

Total budget for two people for 6 months about £8000  :shock:

:shock: Christ on a bike! Where you staying? The bloody Hilton? Dining on caviar and veal? Gotta be cheaper than that surely??????

Not trying to do it on a completely limited budget - allowing for a tiny of luxury on the way.
Bear in mind that £5 of food per person per day comes to £1800 for 6 months and air tickets are £2400 for 2 people. Thats £4400 to start you before we even look at accomodation and other expenses.

It'll cost you more than you imagine and I'm being very realistic.

This thread made me think of is

It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me
To go through all the things that I want to be
I don't believe in everything I see
Y'know I'm blind so why d'you disagree

So take me away cos I just dont want to stay
Cos all the lies you make me say
Are getting deeper every day
These are crazy days but they make me shine
Time keeps rolling by

All Around The World, you've gotta spread the word
Tell 'em what you heard
You're gonna make a better day
All Around The World, you've gotta spread the word
Tell 'em what you heard
You know it's gonna be okay

So what you gonna do when the walls come falling down?
You never move you never make a sound
So where you gonna swim with the ridges that you found?
If you're lost at sea then I hope that you've drowned

Didn't think of it like that, that is worrying now you add it all up like that! :o

a few thoughts

be in sydney for christmas, its lush. my uncle lives there and they all have bbq's on the beach for christmas lunch.

go to thailand, its ace.

go to south america.

From those I know that have done it and are advising me on the trip I'm planning about £1000 per person per month is about right depending on where you're headed.

That's about right for a single person - but group or couple travel reduces this a lot.

This is because of accomodation and food. Often it is as cheap to stay or eat as a couple as it would be for a single person.

I'd say you could do it on £750 per month as a singleton, but you'd be cutting corners.
About £1250 per couple per month is about right.

I think this is one of those things that everyone under-estimates - thinking "I can get by on £400 per month when travelling" which is fine in someplaces like India/Thailand where cheap food and Accom. is possible, but if you factor in USA, then your budget is blown.
USA I'm thinking will be about 3 times the price of Asia for food and accom...if not more...

For those really interested I'll be posting my itinery and approx budgeting information as I think it'd be helpful to others planning the same thing.

As said I'm leaving in January, so it should all be booked before Christmas, so I'll post it around then.

I'm also having a website to keep in touch with people in England while travelling, so information will be on there when it's up and running.

Well, that gives me more confidence, will be travelling with at least 2 others, so may be cut costs. I have the budgeting skills of Ricky Hunt though

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Don't be so harch on yourself.

I'm budgeting for about 1k a month on my travels hopefully including a rental income after Mortgage of about £100 a week.

12 months is my target as well

Planning to do the old TEFL course to bring home the bacon on the way, few people I have met have been bumming around on the back of it for 2years+

You can easily do it on a hell of a lot less mind without resorting to being a travelling bum.  Thailand for example, you’ll find the premium bungalows cost ridiculous amounts while just up the road on the slightly quieter beach you can get a slightly more basic version for pennies.

I wasted my Australian WHM visa mind.  Kicked off in Sydney and spent the first part going on the lash and spending far to much then further up the East coast the less jobs there are available.  

What ever you do though don’t pick Strawberries or any other kind of fruit or work in any sort of job that involves telephones.  Both will ensure you feel more abused after a days work than a Barrymore/Kelly sandwitch.

See we've been advised not to use the cheaper bungalows on the beach as they are beach-bum cottages  :shock:

Used in the same way as some commons and toilet cubicles - were there any holes in the wall in yours?

OJ, If you need any country info let me know as I have loads of things at work i can send to you about all the countries you've mentioned.

I woiuld definitely include cambodia - you can go to angkor wat, phnom penh and siem riep - all amazing and I would also say to peru/chile as you have the inca trail.

I am going to reykjavik in march, its not cheap but well worth a visit.

 :D   No otherwise I'd have my knob through them and waving about faster than you can say Jack-Larry.

I did a month away in Hawaii .. LA .. Sydney and NZ .. booked with Swindon Travel .. they were very good!

Pretty sure you don't need to do that if you've got a degree, Daz.  Met a load of people doing that, seemed they had it quite easy.

 Don't forget to viisit the world's only penis museum....be warned though its only open on a Tuesday and Saturday.....it contains a fascinating selection of mammalian nobs....like this....Blue Whale

 http://image.pathfinder.com/time/europe/webonly/europe/2000/08/penis.jpg

  This specimen was a youth, an adult blue whale boasts a metre long dong.

  Bull's pizzle.

Handy to have all the same Spacey, unfortunately it's just shy of a grand for the official qualification.

Reg do you read Bizarre?

 No, should I?

Yes and possibly Fortean Times, a little crass in parts but full of in-depth articles on institutes like the above museum.

im going to grow a beard when i go away. I'll come back looking like bigfoot

You'll look like your avatar

i did that  8)  

its well worth it, you can talk to people and stroke your beard to make it look like your thinking when you could actually be thinking about cows and dogs  :D

 :shock: Was thinking more along the lines of the Blue lagoon etc Reg however sounds like an interesting day out  :?

the cheapest place i have ever found for flights is thomas cook, they have booked 90% of all of my flights and did a round the world trip of hongkong-bangkok-singapore-perth-auckland-nandi-LA-san fransisco-london for £899 that was last year, definately worth a look.

jimbo if you are going down under make sure you go to new zealand, its a fuckin amazing place and well worth spending a fair while there.

south america is also a must however watch your back if you go to any major cities in brazil, for hot women who put out you cant beat chile, colmbia, and the central american belt taking in costa rica and mexico.

fuck im jealous, if i werent ill i would be travelling now. :(

thomas cook hey? did you go in the shop or do it online? Do they actually do it as a round the world ticket or is it many tickets sold seperately

went into the shop, and it was a round the world, they have the same system as any other travel agency including sta, personally i would try sta first and then go to thomas cook before buying your ticket to get a quote from them.

other info: there are two types of round the world ticket with different airlines taking part the one i went on was ace i flew, virgin atlantic, singapore airlines, and air new zealand.
air new zealand was a bit gay but singapore airlines are total skill.

the other tickets use ba and quantas. ba make me punch people.

I used BA and Quantas ... BA world traveller plus was excellent .. trouble is they use various other airlines for other areas and they arent so good!

whats wrong with BA?

really cramped and shit food and entertainment. virgin had a playstation and 98 films to choose from!!

sta are advertising this one  uk-tokyo~overland-osaka-singapore-melbourne~overland-sydney-christchurch~overland-auckland-fiji-cook islands-LA~overland- new york-uk

for £843.


and this one sounds fuckin ace but a bit more pricey at £1319

uk-rio~overland-buenos aires-santiago-easter island-tahiti-auckland-sydney-hong kong-bangkok-uk

they both sound superb!