Hi all About 5 years ago I - Paul - posted a question on a TravelBlog forum asking whether the best way to do a RTW trip was to travel East or West first. At the time I wrote this question I posed it on the basis of a) setting off àbout 8 years later and b) doing a gap year or two. Zoom forward 5 years, to September 2016, and we find that our - Paul and Pip - travels are about to begin, but not with a gap year. We are both fortunate to have now retired and have many plans for travel over the coming years. And despite the fact that we are not doing year(s) away we are still intending to mix significant periods away with many shorter breaks. And so the
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