Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2017 and to the beginning of an enormous year for TTWS.
I have been doing lots of planning and researching in preparation for my next project, one which will last the entirety of this year.
#7continentsin2017
Yep, you guessed it! This year I will be setting my feet on each of the seven continents, all within 365 days.
I will start the year by returning to Greenland – which though is considered part of Denmark, is actually on the North American continental plate.
I will then spend a month travelling through Europe before heading to the Middle East – which will make up a big chunk of my Asian travels this year. I will also be returning to Thailand, the Maldives and Indonesia!
In the middle of the year I will be headed to Ethiopia – a country I have been itching to visit for years, and this will ‘tick off’ the African continent.
Though I live in Australia, it seems like a cop out to count the country I live in as successfully ticking off the Australia/Oceania continent, so I will be heading East towards the Pacific Ocean and visiting tropical Tonga to snorkel with humpback whales.
Later in the year I will visit a couple of different South American countries before finishing the year on a cruise to Antarctica.
This year is going to be an absolutely enormous undertaking, but I am so excited to get started!
I cannot wait to share some many more stories, pictures, travel guides and tales of my own mishaps as this year goes on.
So please, stay tuned and get ready to take a tour of every continent on Earth!
Furthermore, I will be documenting this years travels on social media using the hashtag #7continentsin2017 – so please do get involved! Use the hashtag to share pictures, stories or information from your favourite travels. At the end of the year I will share my favourites right here on the blog as a sort of social media roundup. I will also have x5 original prints to give away to the owners of my favourite pictures from the year!
Here are all the places you can follow along and what you can expect from each platform:
Blog: Everything you know and love!
Facebook: Pictures and updates about my travels
Instagram: My absolute favourite pictures (and lots of them)
Pinterest: All of the pins!
Youtube: Little video snippets and possibly even a few VLOGs
Twitter: Unfiltered Ellen at 2am
Snapchat @wwellend: Unfiltered Ellen but in video form!
I hope everyone has a truly amazing 2017.
Happy Travelling!
-Ellen xx
You are living the dream! Good luck and enjoy all of your adventures – looking forward to following along 🙂
Thank you so much! I cannot wait to share them all 🙂
Sounds amazing. Enjoy.
Thank you – I most certainly will! 🙂
Wow, what a year ahead, great plans! Happy and safe travels!
Ron.
Thank you so much! Happy and safe travels to you too!
Pour cette nouvelle année, je vous souhaite : 2 fois plus de joie, 0 souci, 1 santé d’enfer, 7 tonnes de bonnes nouvelles !
Profitez bien….
Merci beaucoup, même pour vous!
That’s so exciting! Although I would probably pass on Antarctica, not gonna lie.
Why is that? Not a fan of the cold?
Yeah not so much. Poland is cold enough for me!
This is amazing Ellen! How exciting for you, wishing you safe travels and a wonderful 2017. ❤️
Thank you John! Right back at ya! <3
Sounds fun.. 😉 Enjoy your trip.
Will do! Thank you very much 🙂
This is indeed a huge project. Stay safe, wherever you happen to be, and know that there are many of us pulling for you.
Will do 🙂 Thank you so much – that is so lovely to hear <3
I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOUR NEW PROJECT! It is going to be so amazing to read about!!! As a travel blogger, I am sure you love quality travel gear as much as I do! I’m currently hosting an awesome Nalgene giveaway, and I am spreading the word to all of my fellow travel bloggers, so that they can enter (with unlimited entries) for their chance to win my favorite travel gear! Here is the link! http://thestudenttraveler.org/nalgene-travel-gear-giveaway/
Thanks so much! I will be sure to check it out!
Looking forward to follow your adventures ! 😀
Thank you so much! I cannot wait to share them!
It sounds like a great year!
I certainly hope so!
Wishing you safe travels eating your way through 2017 🙂
Thank you very much – same to you!
Wow! Looking forward to reading about it all. Enjoy!
I look forward to writing all about it 🙂 see you along the way!
Sounds awesome. I’m insanely jealous of Antarctica. It’s the only continent I haven’t set foot on and it has become a slight obsession to get there but it’s just so expensive (although I’m fervently squirreling money away to get me there one day). Looking forward to reading about all your adventures.
My big trip for this year is my circuit of Oz trip. Excited to finally be going to NT and WA which I haven’t been to before.
When will you be in the NT? That is my home base!
Late August, exact dates not known yet. Going to a conference in Gold Coast then heading north up the coast to Cairns then flying to Darwin then on to Perth then to see my friend in Adelaide on the way home. Got a month but still in the planning stages.
I might be around the place! If you want you can let me know when you’ll be in Darwin and if I am in the city I could show you around!
Sweet. I’ll let you know once I’ve got dates more set in stone.
there you go, girl! love the puppies!! where was it taken?
In Oqaatsut, Greenland!
Quite an ambitious adventure, but you have the enthusiasm and spunk to do it. Here is wishing you a great 2017 adventure. I for one will be following and living vicariously through your blog and photos. Many small adventures for me this year to get ready for my Alaska adventure. It will be 40-45 days traveling from So California to Alaska and back, driving.
Thanks Terry – I look forward to following along on your Alaskan adventure. Wishing you the safest of travels!
Many adventures coming before that one which is planned in 2018 right now. Hope you follow along.
This is going to be Amazing!!! Have fun. We will be following and reading. I’m excited for you!!!!
Thank you so much! I look forward to sharing!
Good luck! What an amazing year of travel you have coming up! Happy New year 🎉
Thank you so much! Happy New Year to you too!
Looking forward to more great posts.
I look forward to writing them!
Wow… that’s going to be a massive year.. Can’t wait to read all about it 🙂
Thanks Sarah – I hope it creates some amazing material to write about!
What an amazing adventurous 2017 you will have!
It certainly is shaping up to be one helluva year!
Sounds like an adventure packed year! Look forward to following along. Happy New Year!
I really hope so! Happy New Year to you too and safe travels!
Excitement plus!
Good luck and enjoy!! Greenland is definitely under my radar.
You just wait, I am going to make you want to visit it even more!
Happy new year and happy traveling! Sounds like quite the exciting project you’re undertaking, and can’t wait to hear all about it. If you could, I’d love to see a post on the planning and budgeting process!
xx
Vivien
Yes, I’m interested in the planning and budgeting process too.
Hmmm, I tell you what, I will try and keep track of how much I spend in each place and maybe try to create a finance report at the end of the year – would something like that be interesting to you?
This is incredible! Have a wonderful year!!!
Thanks so much Anya – you too!
Oh wow, best of luck with your adventure!
Thanks so much Alice – you too, safe travels!
This sounds amazing! Good luck and I hope you have the most wonderful time!
Thank you so much! I hope your 2017 in travel is just as exciting 🙂
Happy New Year, Ellen! Your travel plans sound very exciting — looking forward to following your adventures via your posts. 😃
Happy New Year to you too Grace – I look forward to sharing all my travels with you 🙂
So exciting! Good luck and safe and happy travels throughout the year.
Thanks so much! Safe travels to you too!
Yay! Happy travels to you! Looking forward to following along.
Happy travels to you too Rebecca! 🙂
Seriously cool challenge! Good luck with it, I’m most interested in the Greenland and Antarctica trips so I will follow those blogs with interest.
Awesome to hear! I will be in Greenland in a week so you won’t have to wait long!
I love this. I’m hoping to do the same but have given myself 2 years. I can’t wait to read about your Antarctica adventure!
Good for you! Are you planning on doing Antarctica in the first or second year?
Hopefully next year when I return to Australia. I’m still coming off my high from Iceland.
Happy New Year! Safe travel in 2017!
Safe travels to you too!
Happy New Year and what a way to spend the year! Enjoy the adventures that await you! Peace and blessings! 😉
Thanks so much! Happy new year to you too! 🙂
This sound so exciting! Can’t wait to follow along with you:)
Awesome! I can’t wait to bring you along in my virtual backpack 🙂
Wow. That sounds amazing and I can’t wait to follow along. Safe journeys.
Safe travels to you too 🙂
Sounds unbelievable! Hope you have an incredible time! I’ve just started my blog and have a 7 month trip planned for New Zealand and Australia from June this year! Have started following your blog for tips on where to go and what to do! Safe travels.
Amazing! What spots in Australia will you be stopping at? Safe travels to you too.
We start in Melbourne on 2nd August and will probably rent a campervan for a while and drive round the coast to Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns… We don’t know how far we’ll be able to get yet so will decide that later on, but we will have to work at some point so will continue the journey after earning some extra money! Any tips would be great!
How ambitious! Our current plans don’t include Antarctica.. that sounds like a tough one to check off!
It certainly will be a pricey one to achieve, but it will be well worth it!
Wow, great plans! Lucky you! Make sure to stop by Beirut, it is not to be missed… 🙂
Beirut is on my agenda for 2018! I would love to visit Lebanon!
Good luck good luck good luck! This sounds amazing! Can’t wait to read all about it 🙂
Good luck to you, I wish you a safe trip. I will continue following you.
Looking at your plans, I cannot help but feel envious! It has recently become one of my dreams to visit all 7 continents at some point. I see people planning trips to Antarctica, and even though I hate the cold, I still hope to one day fulfill this venture as well.
I’d love to get to know your blog more in the next few weeks. I have gotten to go on several adventures in the last few months while living abroad. I never thought this could be my life! How did you make the decision to uproot and go?
If you’d ever want to exchange links on your blog or collaborate, I’d be totally interested. Check out my blog and let me know. 🙂
Regards,
Jared
Hey there! Your plans sound amazing!!! We”ll be following your posts, can’t wait to get to South America! 🙂 we’re goind there ourselves next year!
Cheers!