"The place do you reside?" is a straightforward query — however I haven't got a fast reply. As a substitute of settling down and ready to get
“The place do you reside?” is a straightforward query — however I haven’t got a fast reply. As a substitute of settling down and ready to get outdated in a single place, my husband and I devised an ongoing journey plan that every yr consists of France, Singapore, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand — in addition to the odd side-trip or cruise alongside the way in which.
It began with a ship. After 15 years in Singapore, we determined to retire — my husband from a profession in delivery, and I from my job as {a magazine} editor — and construct a barge to discover France each summer time through that nation’s enormous community of waterways. We launched the Karanja, our 49-foot reproduction Dutch barge constructed by Piper Boats in England, on the Thames. A yr later, we sailed her throughout the Channel to Calais, down rivers and canals to the south of France — an unforgettably great expertise.
Canal du Midi canal in Toulouse, France.
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Each October, we winterize our boat and depart her in a protected port — for the second, that is Moissac on the Canal de Garonne. Then we fly south — like migrating geese — to spend one more summer time between Durban and Perth. We merely do not do winter.
The nomadic retirement
Now meet South Africans Gail and Neil Greenfield, the epitome of retired nomads. After eight years as expats within the U.Okay., the U.S., Germany and Singapore, this occupational…