As 2014 was drawing to a close, I realised that I had a large amount of annual leave at work that I hadn’t taken. With the office closing over Christmas and some time off in lieu I figured that I had around 6 weeks to use.
I had received an invite from the CRP in Dhaka where I had previously volunteered to join them for a conference in early December and just like that an idea was born.
There was a gap in my calendar and a plane ticket to Bangladesh, so not wanting to waste an opportunity I started to look at how many other places I could get around locally.
So started my whistle-stop backpacking tour of 2014 covering 6 countries in 6 weeks.