Half the fun of travel

If you're like me and believe half the fun of travel is in the planning and anticipation then you'll understand my enjoyment at the work involved in researching and booking a trip. Made so much easier and quicker these days due to the wealth of information and options provided by the internet. Memories of pouring over maps, plotting distances and marking routes. Reading through guide books and visiting tourist offices to gather leaflets and finding out the latest visa information for your intended destination. Not to mention phone calls and waiting on the line for ages. All now a past participation verb. So much easier today, but the journey is still the same, the planning just as exciting.
And it still leaves and takes nothing away from the actual travelling part.
The anticipation and excitement in what's expected but also the unexpected. The what you know, but don't really know.
However, as sometimes happens a place doesn't quite come up to expectations you can at least be glad you didn't missed out the 50% planning part. 

And then you get to the point where you just want to go. Like now !  Must fly >

> A new instalment of mandb trips. Coming this December.