South America, anyone?
Wed 2 Jan 2008Being a true romantic, Mrs Fitz gave me half a rainwater tank for Christmas. Being equally romantic, I gave her the other half.
But our real Christmas presents will be a trip to South America in May.
Mrs Fitz’s usual technique of exorcising her travel bug is to find a travel agent who knows the target area well and has good contacts with local hotels, guides, drivers etc. She then asks for a price for a personalised tour for 10 to 15 of her friends. (Typically, 10 are needed to qualify for discount airfares.) This is so much better than a regular tour where one waits for 44 strangers to get on/off the coach. Better still, we never have to go to the guide’s brother’s carpet shop!
For this trip she has been working with Gary Tate of South America Journeys in Auckland to put this personalised itinerary together.
We now have 11 of our friends signed up to go, some of whom are coming from Canberra & travelled with us to the Middle East in 2005, others travelled with Mrs Fitz to China in 2006. Last days if anyone else wishes to join us.
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:15
Wow! That´s a hell of a trip!!!! Unfortunately, my Spanish is completely limited to what I posted about - but the BBC site has a great, free, online Spanish course called Spanish Steps. Bear in mind though that Latin Americn Spanish is a little different.
Have fun!!!!