Personal Update + WYD Travelling Videos

17/6/2023

The reason that there hasn’t been much news from me as late is because I have been sick at home for the best part of a week after having done a crazy 5-and-a-half-day round journey with my father from Sydney to Melbourne, to Adelaide, and back to Sydney again, all by rail.

I hope to be in a fit state to attend the 3rd WYD Formation Session this coming Tuesday (20 June), God willing.

Until then, I have put together this collection of relevant YouTube Travel Videos for my fellow diocesan pilgrims and for anyone else planning on travelling to Italy or Portugal.

Our Diocesan Itinerary for WYD Lisbon 2023

I do admit that most of these videos are from Mark Wolters and his Wolters World YouTube channel. This is because he and his family are inveterate travellers with a wealth of lived experience and, in comparison to other travel advice channels, he aims to be helpful rather than fear-mongering (case in point: the Scam City tv series, widely available on YouTube).

I would highly recommend checking out Wolters World for further travel advice that I can't share due to how long this post is already getting 😉

May 2014

Better to pack light than be left behind somewhere with a ton of bricks in your luggage and the bus a hundred miles down the road.

July 2017

June 2023

To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

June 2022

July 2018

May 2018

April 2023

And a warning about a Tourist Scam in Florence from Kacie Rose. I can't share the video because it is a YouTube Short (I think), but I can give you the link to it HERE.