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One of your most important companion during your trip (besides actual people), will be your backpack. In the last few months before the start of our Big Trip, we have been carefully preparing our packing list. We asked some friends who did a one year world trip …
Lees verderFor Belgians, New Zealand is really the other side of the world. Heck, even from China, it’s still a 13h flight. It’s hard to find more places which are that far away (well, we could go for Pitcairn Islands). Maybe it’s the distance, or maybe …
Lees verderDuring the Big Trip, there’s (highly likely) only one country for which I, Mr. Fries, need a visa: the home country of Ms. Rice. In the last 4 years, we’ve been traveling there minimum twice a year, so the Chinese visa application has been sort …
Lees verderNew Zealand will be the last destination of our big trip, where we will be traveling for almost a month. At least, that’s what we hope to do. Even though Mr. Fries does not need one, unfortunately Ms. Rice does. Our initial Big Trip schedule …
Lees verderNo kidding, we just hit the 1 month milestone. In 30 days we will set off on our biggest adventure ever. The last few weeks have been full of excitement, stressful moments, yet full of so much fun. The main focus points have been administration, planning …
Lees verderIn our final part of the trilogy of planning for South America (Peru-Boliva and Chile-Patagonia), we’ll be in the Northern area of Argentina and Uruguay for almost 2 weeks. Our first part of the Big Trip will be getting to and end, yet we still plan …
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We’ve been talking in one of our first posts about the Visa hassle for South American countries (details here). Mid June, we provided all required documentation electronically to the Peruvian Consulate of Brussels. An interview was planned on July 11th to finalize everything. After waiting for …
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September 29th, 2016. That’s the day we’ll leave for Lima, Peru and start our great journey. With still (or only) three months left, we’re finally getting to the go-crazy-preparation stage: which clothes will we take? How much cash? Oh no, we still need to get that …
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To put an exact timing on the idea of the big trip popping up would be too hard, as it evolved throughout the last few years. It was a thinking process: Do we want to leave our jobs for a while? What about the mortgage? Do …
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