Travel planning
May 31st, 2007 by Oana
Ian seems to be happy enough to let me figure out the details for most of our trips. I haven’t screwed it up too many times, and it’s something I enjoy doing: poring over travel guides and websites, making timelines and schedules, booking accommodation and transportation and activities and tickets - it gives me comfort to be in control of the details.
Having planned almost a dozen trips over the past year, you’d think I’d have it down to a science. Not so, unfortunately. Each destination is different, and so are our goals in visiting it. Sometimes the planning is made difficult or almost impossible by the lack of information available on the particular destination (for example, we had no idea what to expect in Croatia in the off-season, or in Sardinia more recently).
Our upcoming trip to Romania and Turkey has also been difficult to plan, because a lot of the time will be spent with family in the former, and we have yet to arrange transportation to the latter. We know generally that we’d like to see Istanbul and Cappadoccia and do a blue lagoon cruise, but since we don’t have firm dates for the Turkey part of our trip, I have not booked accommodation or any activities. Between our Lonely Planet guide, the Internet and Ali’s dad in Istanbul, I’m hoping things will work themselves out.
I am not sure how you do it. I have lived here nearly four years now and I have not been as many places as you have in only one year. I am sure everything in Turkey will work out fine. I had a Japanese flatmate who went there with no idea what he was doing and he was fine.
It’s the urgency of only living here for just under 1 year - we try to take any opportunity for travel that comes along!
True. I hope you have fun in Turkey!