Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge writer with her top tips for creating the perfect travel itinerary

Plenty of prospective travellers will aim to book a hosted tour to make the most out of their destination - but that's not a choice for everyone.

Planning the perfect holiday comes with plenty of extra pressures, because no-one wants to miss anything they want to see or run out of time to see an undiscovered gem.

BloggerAtLarge writer Megan Singleton has outlined her tips for planning the perfect itinerary, with more advice available here.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News TALKS'DB Travel with Wendy Wootours, Where the World
Is Yours.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
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World with Joe McKenzie before twelve. But before you start traveling,
you really need to think about your itinery and the
best person to talk to about that is Megan Singleton
blog at large dot com. Morning to you, Good morning Roman.
This terrifies me because if all the time zones and things, oh,
if you get it wrong, you really muck things up,

(00:38):
don't you.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yes, yes, And look I saw I've got a cheeky,
sneaky quick tip today for how to plan your own itineries.
And even if it's that you don't do your own bookings,
but maybe you've just gone ahead and done your own
research and then you can take it to your travel
agent who can put all those you know, wheels on
the thing for you so that you don't miss flights

(01:00):
and stuff. And there actually there's a whole nother conversation
about making sure that you've got the one through ticket
so that if delays you are kind to be covered
by insurance and instead of single sector bookings. But today's
secret travel tip is basically to go and research other
people's tour itineries. And I host a lot of different tours,

(01:21):
So I've got a bunch that I've just listed that
people can just pilfer go through, right, look at what
we've set up, and I've worked with travel agents. We've
gone line by line, day by day through various itineries
from like the Pacific Coast Highway, across Mexico, in Europe, Italy,
whatever you'd like, have a look there. And I've also

(01:42):
listed a bunch of other big tour companies in New
Zealand that you can just look at their itineraries and go, okay,
what I want to do is an Irish road trip?
How on earth do I begin? And then you just
get so much gold out of what other people have
already put together. No reinventing the wheel. Just have a look,
cut out what you don't like, you know, realize, okay,

(02:03):
this is going to need two or three days because
it's actually you know, a massive area. Like let's say
my China tour, I want three days in Beijing because
I want to see the Great Wall. Then where am
I going to go next and so yeah, that's just
a cheeky little travel tip.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's a great idea. It's absolutely freaky that you said
Irish road trip. That's exactly what I was talking about yesterday.
I'd love to do an off piece kind of lane
ways tour of Ireland. Wouldn't that be beautiful?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It is beautiful. I've done it. We did it in
four days around Southern Ireland from Dublin round to Galway.
It is so good. I want to do it again.
I want to do the whole country next time. It's
so little. You can actually travel from Dublin to Galway
in about two and a half hours, but you could
take four days and go right around. It's so fiddle
d D Roman. You'll love it. There's music, there's cute villages.

(02:50):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, great pubs, great people. Did you get to County
Clear No we didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
We got over to Oh gosh, now you put me
on the stop. That's right, The Dingle Peninsula, the Cliffs
of more Limerick, Galway amazing. And that's all on the
blog as well. Actually, I've got a link on the
latest post I've put up so steal that itinery make
it your own and happy days.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, I like what you're saying here, So you get
that from blogger at large dot com. So you go
on there, you look at the tour. Oh, I like
that old Go and have a look at what barryon
Shirley wrote about it, and you get a feeling if
they're just like nightclubbing alcoholics as opposed to someone who
wants to take in history. You get that sense, and
then you design your own itinery for Yeah, look.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
There's so many. I mean even our sponsor Wendy Woo
tours have got tons and they're day by day by
day touring through Japan or whatever. Have a little look,
go and see what suits you. Now, you might still
choose to go on a tour because that you can't
be bothered organizing it all yourself, but if not, they
are just a gold mine of information.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yes, absolutely brilliant. It sounds so simple, but that's often
what works right, the simplicity. Thank you so much, Megan
Megan Singleton, blogger at large dot com. Go there, get
all those itinery tips and look at all those places
you'd love to go and see, and then red the
stuff that's written by other people and do your own
itinery brilliant. Why haven't I thought about that?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
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