Itinerary

Everyone keeps asking where I'll be when so here is an itinerary of approximate wheres and whens:

Tuesday July 22 - Leave Christchurch at 6.05pm for Dubai (via Sydney.) Arrive in Dubai at 5.45am on the 23rd. I have four days to explore the city, hopefully see some islands being made and stay with some friends who used to live across the road.

Sunday July 27th - Leave Dubai at 3.10 am (ouch) for Dar es Salaam (via Nairobi) arriving at 9.20 am.

This is where I spend 10 weeks in Tanzania, 7 of those weeks with the Volunteer Africa programme. for more info on the programme visit these links:
www.volunteerafrica.org
www.volunteerafrica.org/green/singida/mvaemedicalstaffhouses2008

We have a week of language and culture classes first in Dar es Salaam then I head to Singida on Tuesday 29th ish and on to Mvae at the end of that week.

Sept 15th I head off on new adventures, hopefully travelling with my brand spanking new volunteer buddies to do a safari, explore some old cities and relax in Zanzibar.

Sunday October 5th - I depart Dar es Salaam for Athens (via Doha for an eight hour layover) and arrive in Athens at midday on Monday.

Then I have 9 weeks to make my way from Athens to London and I intend to see quite a lot on the way!
Greece: 2-3 weeks with a sojourn to Istanbul from Thessaly. Also: Santorini, Epidauros and a tour of the Cyclades with various stops in between. Take a ferry to the east coast of Italy in mid-to-late-October.

Italy: 2 weeks: Rome, Siena, Venice, Verona and Milan. Maybe a stop to Pisa but I'm not sure I'm hugely interested in such a failure of engineering . The Acropolis and the Colosseum are still standing, why visit the thing that's not?

France: 2-3 weeks: Lyon, to visit Laura and visit the south of France and pop into Barcelona for a bit. Paris, obviously, where I will decide just how much I'm will to spend on overweight baggage fines.

England/Ireland: 2-3 weeks: Visit London. Re-evaluate baggage fine decision. At some point head to Dublin and hope that there's a floor to sleep on with Frances and Laura.

Friday Dec 12 - Depart Heathrow (from Terminal 5, awesome. I'll check in 6 hours early) at 11:50am and arrive in Toronto at 2.50pm. Four weeks in Canada to visit people and skate on frozen stuff and make use of my boots.

Sometime around Jan 10th head to Boston and New York with a couple of days in each one. Make it to LA for my flight on the 18th. This part is way less planned than anything else :)

Sunday Jan 18th - Depart LAX 8:30pm for Auckland arriving at 6:10am on Tuesday the 20th. Then home sweet home to Christchurch.

Now you know what I know!