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Greetings from Thailand!

2020 continues to clip by at quite an astonishing pace, though perhaps this feeling is is driven by the degree of 'sameness' that one gets from waking up in the same place every day for such an extended period of time.

Greetings from Thailand!

This past Thursday we continued our look at some future trip ideas through the lens of our new '5x5' structure, this time taking a look at Southern Europe - Spain, Portugal, the south of France, and Italy.

In this part of Europe there are so many amazing stops you could potentially make that you are spoiled for choice and need to start somewhere.

Check out the replay from our recent webinar looking at potential trip ideas in Southern Europe for 2022, covering Portugal, Spain, southern France, and Italy:

Check out the replay from Part I here!

It's 2011, and British writer Nick Hunt is almost at journey's end. For most of the year, he's been tracing the route walked in 1933 by legendary traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor (a man described by a BBC journalist as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene") - and now, after many adventures, sprawling Istanbul is in sight:

"Over the last seven months I’d reached this point many times, my imagination outpacing my body, flowing ahead through mysterious landscapes that existed only in Paddy’s words, and stopping abruptly at a postcard image of minarets, domes and water.

First off, I'd like to thank you for all the great feedback I've received thus far on our Future Travel Forum webinar, the new '5x5' program structure we're working on, and the Northern Europe itineraries we discussed.

Greetings from Thailand!

This past Thursday was part 1 of our Future Travel Forum, and I'd like to extend a big thank you to all the travellers who joined us and shared some of their thoughts and opinions on the pandemic, cruising, and our new '5x5' program structure.

Check out the replay from our recent deep dive webinar into the future of travel and some new programs we're thinking about for 2022 and beyond:

Part 2 will be about Southern Europe on September 10 - check your newsletter for the sign up link!

It must have been quite a shock. As an Italian family tried to reboard the MSC Grandiosa, midway through its first Mediterranean cruise in six months (and the first such trip in the region since the pandemic struck), they were told they’d breached new COVID-19 regulations and would not be allowed back on board.

Greetings from Thailand!

I hope you're enjoying what are somehow the last days of August (!?!) in this very strange timewarp that 2020 has been thus far.

In the week ahead is the first edition of our Future Travel Forum 2022 (registration link is in your newsletter), where we'll be having a discussion about travel in the post-pandemic era.