Six Weeks of Summer

These days with our new travel style of actually having a home, albeit somewhere new and exciting, our holidays have to be a lot more planned out. However, with Kirsty being a teacher it does mean we get quite a few of them.

While the odd weeks off are usually filled with short adventures and entertaining visiting friends and family, the summer holiday is the main event. Six weeks of freedom to disappear off with no ties (apart from that pesky house that we have to still pay rent for). This time is ours, we’ve purposely stopped anyone booking flights to come and visit us during that time so we have the flexibility to do anything that takes our fancy.

The problem is, as usual, we have so many ideas constantly popping into our heads that it’s almost impossible to know how best to spend the time (I’m well aware of how stupidly privileged we sound right now). However in the last few days, I think we’ve nailed down our plans.

Romanian Road Trip

After our first experience of driving to Romania, I promised myself I wouldn’t leave the country for at least the next year. While that plan didn’t work out at all, we ended up driving all the way back to the UK just 5 months later, I’d still rather not spend our time away from Bucharest travelling through multiple countries.

Driving through Serbia to Romania

We’ve certainly enjoyed our time in Romania with trips to the coast and the mountains but we’ve barely scratched the surface of the things we want to see. We’re constantly being told about new towns or villages that we should visit and I’d love to spend the summer doing a big loop of the country and fitting in as many of them as possible.

We bought all our camping gear before leaving the UK with exactly that sort of trip in mind. Load the car up with everything we need, including the dog, and head for the countryside. I must be getting old because what would have once had me complaining as a kid, now sounds ideal…

Diving in Greece

While the above sounds perfect, there is one thing that is missing. We haven’t been diving since our honeymoon in Tanzania at the end of 2014 and that just isn’t right.

Greece is not too far from Romania and some of the islands offer good diving opportunities. Kirsty would happily have us drive down there via Bulgaria and make a few stops along the way, but that’s easy for her to say when she knows it’s me who will be spending most of the time behind the wheel.

I’d much rather have a quick diving holiday where we don’t have to worry about anything. Find some cheap flights online and have 3 or 4 days of intense diving with no return trip or car problems to worry about, just sunshine, salt water, beer and good food.

The sort of scene we need to get back to. Pemba Island, Tanzania.

Flying Home

As I mentioned above we have had lots of guests come and visit us since moving to Bucharest and it’s made our time here twice as enjoyable as it would have been. We’re always selling people the trip by explaining just how quick and cheap the journey is and for that reason I feel like we should be making the most of it too. After all, people are spending money to come out and see us so we should be doing the same in return.

It’s not just proving to people that we will make the effort too though. I’m desperate to see our nephew again who is a bit too young to fly (for my sisters sanity sake anyway) and constantly changing at the moment and, despite the temptation, someone bringing me proper fish and chips out in their suitcase just isn’t going to work, the curry sauce would end up everywhere.

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We’re still trying to work out what exactly we’ll be doing this summer and it’s going to include at least two of these and hopefully all of them. As usual, it’ll all depend on the type of deal we can get. We’ll spend the next few months checking the price comparison sites like Idealo to see what flights are available and what damage they’ll do to our bank account.