Retirement Travel : Exploring The World One Destination at a Time

I always knew I had to travel! As a girl I would watch Wickers World on our old black and white TV and dream of travelling to foreign shores. Now we’re retired and our children have left home we’re free to explore. It’s taken some time to get here and we have a long bucket-list but the world is calling.

We hope our travels and the lessons that we’ve learned will inspire you to realise it’s never too late to start your own bucket list!

Africa Overland | Cambodia | France | Galapagos | India | Ireland | Jordan | Malta | Morocco | Portugal | Singapore | Spain | Sri Lanka | Thailand | USA | Vietnam

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This post was crafted with care and occasional typos by Colleen (and not AI)

Our Retirement Travel

We set ourselves a busy schedule with a few iconic sites and hikes. The destination above are places that we’ve already visited and written about but we’ve been to so many more beautiful destinations.

We like to travel independently when possible but for adventures like or African Overland Trip we opted to go in a group.

As we travel we make notes and slowly we’re writing about all of the countries we have visited and loved. We’ll offer travel tips and destination guides to help you plan your own adventures.

Do You Dream of Far Away Places?

I had a list. Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East and the United States; honestly the list is just too long! Not everywhere is far way and we managed to tick off a lot when we were younger. So far we’ve travelled to over 50 countries in 6 continents :

Andorra | Australia | Austria | Belgium | Borneo| Botswana | Bulgaria | Cambodia | Croatia | Curaçao |Ecuador | Fiji | Finland | France | Galapagos | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Ireland | Italy | Japan | Jordan | Malaysia | Malta | Montenegro | Morocco | Namibia | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway | Panama | Peru | Portugal | Romania | Serbia | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | South Africa | Spain | Sri Lanka | Tahiti (French Polynesia) | Thailand | Tunisia | Turkey | United Kingdom | United States of America | Vietnam | Yugoslavia | Zimbabwe

Sight-Seeing Seniors

My childhood list had a few ticks, the Parthenon in Athens, the Empire State Building in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and our jeep drive through the Sahara desert was seen as particularly adventurous in 1982.  Now our brood has flown the nest and we’re retired, we’re free to explore new destination and our diaries are full for the next several years.

We maybe retired, but we’re certainly not ready for the armchair and slippers. Maybe our days of heart stopping wild adventures are behind us but we’re still up for an adventure, like our glorious Ha Giang Loop or African Overland Adventure.

There are some excellent travel blogs out there but not so many blogs for older travellers like us. Try searching tours for seniors and you’ll see the results are for my parents generation where steps are considered a hazard for the over 60’s!

Then We Walk fills the gap. We like a little more comfort, have a little more money, and time to explore slowly. That sounds like the perfect combination!