Multiple choice
The Fairlie Entourage has a horrendous reputation with travel agents (especially the ones who are family and therefore don’t actually make any money from us) as we tend to approach the organising of holidays like we would browsing through a bookstore.
Oh! Look…a nice cover. Oh yes…but this one had a great review. Too many pages. I don’t know… I feel more like reading something light. But perhaps, I should really do a classic? I’ve read that one too many times before…
We start with little to no idea of what we want to do, and narrow it down from there, which can be a frustrating process for people on the sidelines.
Many a night, Cousin It has sat with her laptop checking fares to here, there and everywhere, only to have us change our minds completely the following day.
However, with The Poolboy’s big deadline at work now on the horizon, he knew he could commit to some time off in the next school holidays for a family trip, and that he definitely wanted to book something now to lock it in.
But the choices…the choices…
Over the course of a week, we changed our minds three times. Each time thinking we had a definite plan.
The options were:
A) A drive from Melbourne to Coober Pedy to stay in one of the underground hotels. It’s a long way, so we’d go via The Grampians, Adelaide and Port Augusta, coming back via Broken Hill, Mildura and Echuca, staying in motels along the way. Over 3,000 kilometres of driving all up, taking in the true Aussie outback on the way.
B) A self-drive tour of the South Island of New Zealand staying in a camper van/mobile home. We’d start in Christchurch and go around the island visiting places such as; Mount Cook, Queenstown, Milford Sound, Te Anau, Dunedin, Fox Glacier, Greymouth and Hamner Springs.
C) A trip to Vietnam. We’d start in Ho Chi Minh City, then go north via Hoi An and Danang and finish up in Hanoi, trying to stay in places with a bit of local flavour.
D) None of the above.
And finally we have a decision.
Which of the above would you have chosen, and which one do you think we did choose?
