0002 So we went to China !

0002  So we went to China !
12th - 25th May 2019
It's a BIG country, with a LOT of people !

Our Chinese tour before P2P

I was due to be in Beijing for the start of the 2019 Peking to Paris on the 30th May.    The car had been shipped from Australia to China in March - So after 2 years of work, I had nothing left to do !   Now, I have never really wanted to travel to China - No reason why not other than the fact that there are other places I would rather visit, and I can't afford to go everywhere on this planet.  Nor am I into group tours, but since I had nothing else to do, I looked at possible tours in China, and when I found one from Wendy Wu that finished in Beijing on the 26th May,(most tours seem to start in Beijing and end in Shanghai), it was obviously meant to be.  And it covered the main tourist "attractions" - Yangtse River cruise, and the 3 Gorges Dam,; Pandas; Terracotta Warriors; Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall.  Sounded perfect - So in early May, off we went.

0001 Time to change direction

0001  Time to change direction
6th September 2019
Peking to Paris is over - What next ?

Olivia & Evelyn in Hobart

This blog is not intended to be all about VW's, even though I am going to start by documenting the rebuild of one.  I am now 72, and having been really busy for the past few years, I am now wondering where I am headed over the next 10 years - Or hopefully more !  So this blog is intended to just be a way to document the future, and my thoughts along the way .  We have grand children (currently) in Perth,

Nick & Hayley in Almere

Hobart, and near Amsterdam (+ twins on the way !!), and know that visiting them quite frequently will figure prominently in our travels.  I also have some
                                                        outback trips I would like to do in
                                                        Australia, (Janet doesn't really like

Damien & Poppie in Perth

sand and camping !! )  so I am keeping my 2008 Toyota Landcruiser camper so I can complete them.   I envisage some extensive and exciting drives around Australia, often visiting friends and family en route, some Euro travel to Amsterdam and UK, possibly some classic rallying, and maybe anther trip to Alaska (I love Alaska !!), and one really big trip I would love to do - To Antarctica, but not on a normal cruise ship - but on an ice breaker !  So in 10 years time, I will look back and see whether I managed to do any of it !     But lets go back to the present.