- We
are David and Penny Mitchell. David is 76/77 years old and
Penny almost 75 years old. It is now February 2025 and we have been
travelling
on and off for 19 years and unfortunately stopped in 2019 due to Covid. 2023 first overseas trip to Thailand. The purpose of this website is to
inform
people of options for travel that they haven't discovered or considered
and maybe help them in finding more independent and inexpensive ways to
travel like us. We have now included some great road trips in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
As with everyone else we have been curtailed for
the last few years, so we've included some great road trips we've made
over the years. 2024 we were back in Hong Kong for 14 nights and
Vietnam, Hanoi travelling south to Ho Chi Minh City. Follow Hong Kong / Vietnam link.
- The following overseas travels started in 2006 with a very short
trip
of 7 nights to Hong Kong having not left Australia for around 30 years or more. Recently starting in 2016 we
have travelled every year for approximately 3 months.
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Apart
from
a couple of years where commitments interfered we have travelled to
somewhere each year and increased our time away each time. In
2016 we started to experiment buying only one way airline tickets as we
didn't know where we were going to return from.
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In other
words
the trip at that time started in Vladivostok Russia and in
this
case ended in Frankfurt Germany but we didn't know where we would fly
home from until a few days or weeks before we got there.
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In
that
year also we had travelled earlier to Singapore and Hong Kong and just
booked one way flights and accommodation but we found that our flight
and airline options were limited due to fixed accommodation bookings.
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With the Russia trip later that year we spent 5 nights in
Beijing
China where there are some visa restrictions. You cannot get
a
China visa without advising China of your entry and exit dates and your
flight details so you need to book both flights prior to applying for a
tourist visa.
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We generally travel within limited means and
use
public transport of buses and trains and stay in two, three or four
star hotels depending on the cost. Some countries are cheaper
than others with accommodation. We use mainly www.booking.com.au
or sometimes www.expedia.com.au and
carry a tablet computer to book accommodation as we go. Note:
Some of these travel websites offer reward discounts when used on
a regular basis. We are currently getting up to 20% discount on
some hotel bookings with booking.com. With
airline bookings we generally use www.webjet.com.au
and www.booking.com.au and www.expedia.com.au or go direct to the airline's website. There are lots of
other options to choose from.
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