Our 2020 travel plans

We hope you had a great New Year's Eve celebration yesterday and wish you all the best! We will tell you about our New Year celebrations as soon as we have time. For now, let's talk about our travel plans for 2020.

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New year, new travel plans

It's a new year and time to make new travel plans. Or rather, we make travel plans all the time. Some trips we plan for a long time, and others "fall" more or less over us. We have far from full control over which trips we will make during the year (things tend to pop up all the time!), but we have at least some plans that we can tell you about.

Spring trips

We do not yet have a single trip booked for the spring, but there are many plans and trips that "hang in the air". The most certain thing right now is that we are going to the region of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany in May. There is a university there that asked me (Helena) to come and talk about my research (on health promotion programmes for adults with intellectual disabilities).

We plan to travel to Germany together, and while I'm lecturing and attending meetings, Peter plans to check out the sights of the region. Other plans for the spring are manybut perhaps still a little fuzzy. Some may not materialise, while other unexpected things will emerge. It's like that every year! Here are some possible plans we have at the moment:

• Helsinki, Finland: The Matka travel fair and the Caravan fair in January.
• Tallinn, Estonia: Tourest Travel Trade Fair in February and/or the Bocuse d'Or Europe gastronomy event in May.
• Rijeka, Croatia: Rijeka is the new European Capital of Culture in 2020, and we discuss a visit here with the Croatian Tourist Board.
• Sri Lanka: We cooperate with the embassy and if there is a press trip in the future, it is possible that we will go.
• Surprising destinations: We have a few more loose plans, which we can't really talk about quite yet...

This summer's long campervan trip

This summer there will be a long motorhome journey with our motorhome FREEDOM. We have renovated the most important things now (clutch and batteries etc!) so by spring we can definitely run with it. We need to fix the roof leak and then we have a number of aesthetic things we want to fix. Whether we get the opportunity to fix everything or not, we can run with it now. Great!

So, where is this summer's long journey going? It's not finalised yet, but we're planning full steam ahead. We are doing our own research on what we want to do, and we are also working with various tourist offices to get the best possible information. It is quite clear that we will be travelling in Saxony-Anhalt and Franconia in Germany and in Czech Republic and Austria.

We also hold discussions with Slovakia and Hungary, and we think about Romania. In addition, we have already had some concerns about Latvia and Lithuania.

Will we have time for everything? No, hardly! It remains to be seen which countries and which route it will be, but it is at least certain that it will be a long motorhome trip this summer and that it will be with our own motorhome.

Travelling in autumn

Where are we going in autumn 2020? No, seriously, we can't plan that far ahead. We will come back to this later.

Follow our journeys

We hope you want to follow our travels in 2020! We will continue to update every day here on the blog, and you can also follow us at Facebook and on Instagram on @freedomtravelnews. Below you can see our nine most popular photos on Instagram in 2019.

What are your travel plans for 2020?

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