What is your travel plans of the near future?

[TOM Merilahti]

What are your travel plans before new years eve, in 2009?

From where do you usually book flight tickets from? Online? Offline?

What is the name of the Airline Company you would like to recommend?

If you could choose to make a trip wherever in world, where do you most like to travel?

[Kerstin Leussing]

Hei, travelplans i have always and everywhere. If they are successful - who know´s? It depends on a lot of things, time, money, with someone together or alone... I just arrived here in Norway 2 months ago to start with my new job. Social Climate in Germany is getting cold. In fact i wanted to go again to Brasil, but it´s not easy to get a chance to live there. Next place i wanted to go was Africa again - Angola. But i decided it´s not the right time now, in this situation i am, to start living in a country like Angola, just started to recover from the war, no real safe circumstances in healthcare and social sector. Well, my sister is living here since 6 years now, she is working as an architect. So i decided to start here, first step to get out of Germany, chance to earn money to make the next step.
My first best friend, she has chosen a small city in north of Brazil (Bacabal). So i hope, my next travel goes there, maybe next summerholidays. MY second best friend, she went to Teneriffa in July. This is also a place i have never been before. Also a nice idea to travel to. My third best friend, he is brazilian and living with his family in Joao Pessoa. Haven´t met him since 10 years now... Never had the money to go there again... Newzeeland is real interesting too. Or Africa, especially the east- and westcoast are fascinating me. Australia - to travel there is a dream from childhood... Cuba and other Latinamerican countries (Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, etc.).
My only problem: how to get all the money for the flight tickets? I know, there are cheap possibilities, but as a socialworker/socialpedagogue you do not earn the most money. So, my plan is to safe some money here and make friends all over the world. So i can go and visit them, hope to get work, to pay with my work for food and a bed. But world changed, it´s not any more so easy to make it this way as it was 11 years before... Is it? Wish you all a great weekend, the sun is shining here and i think am going out for hiking around Oslo. Also a kind of travelling, isn´t it?

[TOM Merilahti]

Hey Kerstin and Andreas,

Thank you very much for your input, which represents exactly my original idea of an answer to my questions above. This kind of answers can be of great value to someone looking for travel ideas and information.

Unfortunately, I do not have any special travel plans at the moment, but on the other side I live in the spirit of world travellers. My 19-years old son travelled to Nepal, from there to Goa, and now he is staying in the Andaman Islands. My 17-years old son is staying in Thailand for a few weeks. I see that it is very important to travel a lot when you are young. I did it as well.