Getting Ready to Go

The Aussies call it a “Walkabouts” but given our age “Limpabouts” seems more accurate. By any name we are getting ready to go again, this time on a river cruise throughout Europe. We leave next Friday (Oct 8th) and fly to London and on to Bucharest.

Somewhere around here is a map of our route. We start at the bottom at the Black Sea and work our way up to the North Sea. It almost sounds like climbing the corporate ladder.

We will stay in a Bucharest hotel for the first night and then board the boat the next day. You will see a little side trip to Istanbul. We are not taking that because we have already spent many happy days and nights there. There are other places in Turkey that we would like to explore someday. The north and the east have great appeal.

We will get there via London. We fly out on October 8th and then switch to a flight to Romania. We arrive in Bucharest on Saturday and then tour the city. On Sunday we board the boat.

For the moment we are checking our packing and our weight. It shouldn't be too much of a problem because after backpacking we learned to travel “light”.