My 2015 Travel Plans and Wishes.

Happy New Year! For this month's travel link-up, the theme is all about what your 2015 travel plans and dreams are, so I thought it was a fitting post for 1st January 2015. I already have my annual trip back to Western Australia booked, but am still in the process of planning the rest! This is what is on my radar at the moment (subject to change, naturally, and some of them are just dreams)....

I'm flying back to Perth in March for 2 weeks, and I can not wait! I'm so excited to see my friends again and just chill out on the beaches every day. It's still pretty hot there in March (in the low-mid 30's), so as well as just doing all the 'normal' things I did when I lived there, I'm hopefully gonna head over to Rottnest Island for a couple of days too to test out my new underwater camera and have some proper R&R. I'm also hoping I'll be able to get back up to Kalbarri for a coupla days as I haven't been up there since I was a kid.

I've been wanting to visit NYC for years, but have just never done it. My brother and I have always said we'll go together, so I'm just trying to figure out when we could go and costs (he's a Uni student which makes things a little harder). But I just long to walk around the big apple and I already have a massive list of sights I want to see and things I want to do!

Again, I've been wanting to visit for years and I just want to finally see the bloody place! It looks so beautiful. Ideally I'd love to spend a couple of days in Marrakech and then a day out in the Atlas Mountains.

This really is a dream destination. I would adore just spending a week jumping on and off a boat sailing around the islands, and having a little nap on the stunning Palm Island while the gentle waves lap against my toes... *sigh*

This one is much more realistic! With cheap flights and hotels also being uber cheap, I'm hoping to finally get to Tallinn. It looks so pretty, and I really want to see a Baltic city. 2015 seems to be the year I finally want to tick off a number of 'bucket list' countries off my list that I've been wanting to visit for years (last year I managed to tick off Cuba and Rome), so fingers crossed I finally do it!

Again, this has been a dream for a few years now. Every summer I plan to spend a week in Dubrovnik with a few friends, checking out the history, eating the local food, sunning ourselves on the beaches, and heading into the countryside to see the picturesque views, and it always falls through. In my plans I always plan to hire a car for a coupla days and drive out to Lake Kotor in Montenegro for a day, and Mostar in Bosnia for a day (both are within an hour or two's drive from Dubrovnik). Please oh please can I finally go in 2015!?

Call me crazy (my mother certainly did), but I really really want to visit Chernobyl and Prypiat in 2015. In winter. So it's all gloomy and haunting. I find it fascinating so I'd love to go there and see it in person. I'm also hoping to improve my photography skills further in 2015, and think photographing Prypiat would be an interesting project/challenge to undertake. I'm currently trying to persuade friends to come with me....I'm struggling to do this...

I so want to see the Northern Lights and experience Iceland! The geysers, the landscape, the snow and ice. I want to see it all!

I wanted to visit Russia when I won my flights with KLM, but my Dad said it was too dangerous. Pft. Although I loved Budapest and Vienna, I wish I didn't listen to him. I would really love to visit Moscow and St Petersburg in the winter to see the beautiful St Basil's Cathedral, and see where some of my favourite composers are from (and also to hear their music in their home country!).

So there's my 2015 travel plans and dreams! I also really want to see more of Europe and am planning to try and see as many European cities as possible on the weekends so I don't have to use up holiday days (or take a long weekend and use one holiday day etc). 

Also firmly on my 2016 travel list are Thailand (so I can volunteer at the Elephant Nature Park), Borneo (so I can visit the Orangutans at the Shangri-La sanctuary), and another big USA roadtrip (ideally starting in Florida, and driving up the east coast to New England). So now I need to start saving big time, which means majorly cutting down on the amount I spend day-to-day! Wish me luck ;)

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