Originally Posted by
chasm54
You've been unfortunate with the weather. Even by Scottish standards, this year has been awful.
The trouble with a world tour, I guess, is that you get only a brief taste of lots of places you'd really like to explore in depth. Now that I have plenty of time, I'm considering whether I want to do that sort of thing, or take several weeks to explore one country at a time. I think the latter, on balance.
The other significant factor for us is that we don't live on the doorstep of these countries. To get to them means a long and comparatively expensive trip that carries other downsides, such as visa restrictions (six months in the UK but only three months in the European Schengen Zone).
That means we have to work and save quite hard to get to where we want to to.
We reduced the cost factor this time by purchasing round-the-world tickets.
So roving the world is not quite as simple or cheap as it might appear on the surface for people our age (again a factor because under certain conventions, we would be able to work to support ourselves as we go if we were under the age of 30).