2017 – Travel Highlights
Howdy all. Well – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Everyone is doing a bit of a retrospective on their blogs right now, although I’m probably a little late to the party, and as I literally stumbled to the line to make it through the year, well, I haven’t felt like posting for a few weeks and still don’t. But. Got to get back to work! And I think there will be less posts this coming year as I need to pull back and extend myself a little less.
Need to. Will I? Time will tell…
Horses on the way from Ulaan Baatar to Terelj
So what of 2017? Well, it’s done and dusted and I survived! I visited just one new country this year – that was Mongolia. And (spoilers!) I probably won’t be visiting any new countries this year. But this year’s plans I will reveal in a new post.
This year I visited – China, Mongolia, Russia, England, France and Japan, all in one big trip. I’ve done a few day trips from Melbourne too, but I spent a good deal of 2017 hard at work. I did have the six weeks of leave, but somehow it just doesn’t feel like I had that long. Because I work two jobs perhaps, and usually over 90 hours a fortnight.
The absolute highlights? Well let’s see…
Majestic Cambridge, punters on the river.
I loved visiting Cambridge, that was beautiful.
The humble ger.
Staying in a yurt (ger) in Mongolia was something I always wanted to do.
Moscow was probably the city I visited that impressed me most this year.
But the main, overall highlight was undoubtedly fulfilling a long held travel dream of mine, to take the Trans-Mongolian from Beijing to Moscow.
How about you? What were your highlights for 2017? Please do comment! Take care and as ALWAYS, May the Journey Never End!
Oh I don’t feel like putting up any new year posts too…so I decided not to even try…haha I’m just trying to catch up with everyone now…hope you had a good start to the new year still! 🙂
All the best in 2018 Andy! Your recent posts are making us curious about Moscow. We’re just scared of finding ourselves on some kind of list 🙂
Inspired by you.. would love to visit Trans Mongolian, some day….
Cheers and so sorry for the delay in replying!
Looks like a great year, especially Mongolia!
You’ve definitely visited some great travel destinations in 2018, Andy! Hope you have an even better 2018! 🙂
Great photos, I love the wild horses. Thank you and greetings.
cheers thanks 🙂
Nice pics! You certainly traveled a lot – work hard, play hard, I guess? 🙂 I won’t be traveling much in 2018 either due to the highlight of 2017: my little twins. But luckily you can always post pics from your archives!