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World Traveller: 7 Continents, 90 Countries, 871 Days Overseas

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  • 2023 Central Asia & Turkey Flights Booked

    In exciting developments, I’ve now managed to book my flight home from Singapore to Melbourne (via Kuala Lumpur) using Qantas points. And I’ll be flying on Malaysia Airlines in business class 🙂

  • 2023 Central Asia and Turkey Update

    After many changes and delays due to COVID restrictions and isolations since 2020 (see 2020 and 2021 travel planning posts) I’ve now made a significant step for my next big international trip to Central Asia and Turkey. I just booked my first flights to get from Melbourne, Australia to Istanbul, Turkey via Singapore to start…

  • Fourth Check-in: Wealth, Weight and Wellbeing Plan (Feb 2021 – Feb 2022)

    A major success on the weight loss side marked the fourth stage of my Wealth, Weight and Wellbeing Plan as the end of the 26 fortnight ambitious and hopefully long term life changing challenge comes into view.You can find the first check in here (15 April 2021), the second here (25 June 2021) and the…

  • Travel 2022 and Beyond

    Back in November I outlined my next likely international trip which would see me exploring Central Asia (Silk Road) and Turkey around May 2022. I put down tour deposits and even managed to get my employer to approve leave for this trip. Unfortunately COVID, and in particular the slow pace of vaccinations in Australia, has…

  • Destination: Sri Lanka

    Official Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Established: 4 February 1948 (Independence from the United Kingdom),  22 May 1972 (Republic) Population: 21,803,000 (2019 estimate) Religion: 70.2% Buddhism, 12.6% Hinduism, 9.7% Islam, 7.4% Christianity Language(s): Sinhala, Tamil, English Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative), Colombo (executive and judicial) Order of Visit: Fifty Sixth  First Visit: 26…