2025 travel plans

[MARTINE]

Not the one I was indicating - and not really a statue?

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But Roo
Do you know the four items in the Liverpool statue?!

 

[RooFlyer]

If you don’t count Ukraine

Or anywhere else you want to google

But Roo
Do you know the four items in the Liverpool statue?!

No. Shall I google it?

 

[MARTINE]

Or anywhere else you want to google


No. Shall I google it?

Well I thought it was interesting.. but thats just me

 

[SuePa]

That's the one I had visited! They told us "it was probably the only one with all 4, except maybe Liverpool"

We were told the Beatles had probably never visited Kazakhstan, which made the instalment even more bizarre/ unexpected.

 

[markis10]

We were told the Beatles had probably never visited Kazakhstan, which made the instalment even more bizarre/ unexpected.

Something in common with Borat!

Wish Qantas would hurry up with their Haneda plans, need to lock in my annual August trip and taking a group with me. 1st China trip for the year locked and loaded in 6 weeks with CX, looking forward to going back to the Swissotel Foshan.
June sees a trip to Friedenshaffen pencilled in, probably J ex DPS to ZRH and then get the ferry across Lake Constance after the train, looking forward to seeing both the Zepplin and Dornier museums.

 

[Flashback]

This one slipped me by...... current bookings for 2025 are:

• Jan - finishing off Christmas in Lake Tahoe trip and arriving in Spain (was cheaper to end there) on NYE, then off on a road trip for a few days
• Jan - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay (IYKYK)
• Feb/Mar - Perth (and the far surrounds)
• April - Georgia
• May/Jun - Sri Lanka
• August - Greenland (expedition cruise)

Plans to be nutted out still for Georgia and Sri Lanka, thinking of maybe hiring a car in Sri Lanka and road tripping but need to see how viable that is.

+ Maldives in June, popping down there at the end of the trip.

 

[drron]

A new one for us. Christmas 2025 is going to be at home. the first time for 20 years.

 

[chitown_boy]

Pretty full on 2025 planned, but very much looking forward to it all…

March/April work trip: london, madrid, barcelona, new york, toronto
May/June work trip: washington dc, hamburg, munich, new york, chicago
June-August 40th birthday trip (2 x SQ F, 2 x SQ J, 1 x AF J - all redemptions): paris, málaga, torremolinos, sevilla, granada, córdoba, madrid, bilbao, san sebastián, barcelona, sitges, valencia, berlin, zurich
September work trip: baltimore
October/November work trip: prague, amsterdam, berlin, chicago
Xmas family trip: sydney

Squeezed in an early May family trip to spend time with my 5yo niece in Hong Kong via plentiful QF redemptions on the MEL-HKG route (and a side day-trip to Shenzhen on a food safari with brother in law). Will be the first time I’ve been back since the infamous protests. Very keen to see how HKG has changed since then - hope there’s at least still some signs of life left in LKF / Soho / Noho! The food scene used to be amazing there…
Icing on the cake will be to spend a ridiculous amount of time at HKG lounges - IMO the best airport in the world for lounges…

As it stands, i’ll only be home for 21 days between late March and mid August basically my apartment’s main purpose in 2025 is to store furniture…I guess this is the aspirational way of life for AFF’ers Can’t bloody wait!

 

[chitown_boy]

Ok not as impressive as the others
But here’s HAM’s Beatle-Platz
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Forgot about this until I was going through some photos tonight

Went wandering about Reforma in Mexico City in Nov ‘24 (as you do) and passed by the Four Seasons and was confused what all the barricades and commotion was about - Paul McCartney was in town and due to exit the hotel (see ‘happiness is seeing paul’ sign)