Apologies for the delay on this!!!
Reason for delay was I had to wait until my official review was published by DT. Available to read here. (If you don't want spoilers - please stay with us here)
Several weeks (and many edits!) later, I'm finally good to go.
Because I don't have all the time in the world in the world to re-write, I will be largely borrowing text from that same review. Spotlight gets the uncensored version though! Additional text will be highlighted in bold.
I will be posting in stages, starting with backstory and journey.
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Prologue
As some of you may recall, at the start of 2016 I went travelling. My girlfriend and I were supposed to be away for 6-months January to July, starting in Australia and then onto South East Asia via New Zealand.
Things didn't turn out 100% to plan. We under-budgeted, overspent, my gf got quite sick in NZ and then her elderly grandmother got v.v.unwell back in the UK. As we had planned to be away on the other side of the world, we had already resigned ourselves to missing Time Warp DE in 2016 having been the previous 2 years ('14 & '15).
But a culmination of all those things led to us making the decision of cutting our travels short and coming home 31st March.
We had flexi-passes so fortunately changing our flights home was relatively hassle-free, and only incurred a menial admin fee.
If we had thought about it, we could've arranged to have our flights go via Germany and gone to Time Warp!! Alas, we didn't. And we spent the next few weeks.. months.. very depressed: our travels had been cut-short, we were concerned about her grandmother - still hospitalised (she's since made an almost full recovery ), we were both skint and now unemployed. And to boot, our friends - who did not yet know we were home - had the times of their lives in Mannheim.
What added salt to the wound was that a Brit friend we had made travelling in Oz ended up going off the back of us biggin' it up so much.
So we had proper FOMO.
We vowed we wouldn't miss 2017.
2016 dragged on and we struggled to get work (or more accurately, work that paid the bills + paid off our debt accrued whilst away)
It dawned on us that Time Warp in 2017 was not going to be realistic financially, along with everything else we wanted to do this year. With a heavy heart we decided to pull-out.
Then on Boxing Day, my worldie of a missus gave me my main Xmas present: 2 x tickets, flights & accomm to Time Warp 2017! (She's a keeper! )
I was made-up! I couldn't stand missing out again. Furthermore, our group of friends interested was increasing as each week rolled by.
Soon we had recruited my sister as well.
And so our story begins...
Reason for delay was I had to wait until my official review was published by DT. Available to read here. (If you don't want spoilers - please stay with us here)
Several weeks (and many edits!) later, I'm finally good to go.
Because I don't have all the time in the world in the world to re-write, I will be largely borrowing text from that same review. Spotlight gets the uncensored version though! Additional text will be highlighted in bold.
I will be posting in stages, starting with backstory and journey.
__________________________________________
Prologue
As some of you may recall, at the start of 2016 I went travelling. My girlfriend and I were supposed to be away for 6-months January to July, starting in Australia and then onto South East Asia via New Zealand.
Things didn't turn out 100% to plan. We under-budgeted, overspent, my gf got quite sick in NZ and then her elderly grandmother got v.v.unwell back in the UK. As we had planned to be away on the other side of the world, we had already resigned ourselves to missing Time Warp DE in 2016 having been the previous 2 years ('14 & '15).
But a culmination of all those things led to us making the decision of cutting our travels short and coming home 31st March.
We had flexi-passes so fortunately changing our flights home was relatively hassle-free, and only incurred a menial admin fee.
If we had thought about it, we could've arranged to have our flights go via Germany and gone to Time Warp!! Alas, we didn't. And we spent the next few weeks.. months.. very depressed: our travels had been cut-short, we were concerned about her grandmother - still hospitalised (she's since made an almost full recovery ), we were both skint and now unemployed. And to boot, our friends - who did not yet know we were home - had the times of their lives in Mannheim.
What added salt to the wound was that a Brit friend we had made travelling in Oz ended up going off the back of us biggin' it up so much.
So we had proper FOMO.
We vowed we wouldn't miss 2017.
2016 dragged on and we struggled to get work (or more accurately, work that paid the bills + paid off our debt accrued whilst away)
It dawned on us that Time Warp in 2017 was not going to be realistic financially, along with everything else we wanted to do this year. With a heavy heart we decided to pull-out.
Then on Boxing Day, my worldie of a missus gave me my main Xmas present: 2 x tickets, flights & accomm to Time Warp 2017! (She's a keeper! )
I was made-up! I couldn't stand missing out again. Furthermore, our group of friends interested was increasing as each week rolled by.
Soon we had recruited my sister as well.
And so our story begins...