Just a quick update since I have not kept this up as well as I would have liked. We are working on a tentative schedule for 2027 that looks like:
Mid January : Athens for a week, then Lefkada for two months (villa booked)
Mid March : Tirana for spring
Summer : Santiago Chile
H is not crazy about the 18 hour flight from the US to Santiago but after what we’re having to do to get to Australia this summer, I’m sure it will be a drop in the pan. Oof.
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Latina Russ’s daughter is doing a semester abroad in Australia. The whole family is going to head down to see her once summer vacation hits, and we’ve either been invited to come along or made ourselves a nuisance and are going to tag along — bought the airline tickets yesterday and while H is not well pleased about what is going to amount to an entire calendar day of being on a plane, we are going. Tirana > London > Singapore > Sydney. At least we get a little layover in Singapore, that airport looks cool as heck.
So in honor of the future milestone of adding another continent to my personal checklist, I’m hitting the low-hanging fruit of Australian English. You can look forward to future entries like “shrimp on the barbie” or “that’s not a knife.”