MOC17 Hindsight Katell Copie

katell, Jan 29, 2020

Description:: Duly Noted One Little Bird
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Translation:

At the end of 2009, we booked a big trip for the summer of 2010 with a travel agency : we were supposed to do the tour of Iceland in fifteen days. The agency had booked housings, car, etc... for us. But in March 2010, the volcano Eyjafjoll erupted, interrupting each flight. We inquired about the consequences of this eruption at medium term : we had risks of staying shut in to avoid breathing problems, following the fallout of ashes wich can last a few weeks, even a few months after the eruption. Our daughters were 8 and 5 years old... We didn't wanted to take any risks so we decided to cancel our trip after several days of reflection. We lost about 400 euros. On the moment we were really disappointed... between the lost of money and this project wich was falling apart.

In May 2010, we left on a whim to New York, with family for 6 days with the budget that we had chosen for Island. That was really nice! We availed it a lot: Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Mary Poppins at Broadway etc.

Finally, in 2014, we had planned again a trip to Iceland ! In the meantime we had totally changed our way of travel, focusing on longer stops, by renting housings (instead of hotels) and by planning everything by ourselves. This trip was amazing and was way less expensive that the one we had planned in 2010.

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