‘My kids think we’re bonkers going couchsurfing at our age.' As they close in on their goal of visiting 1,500 airports, Alan and Agnieszka Forbes can add couchsurfing in Saudi Arabia to their list of experiences.
Alan and Agnieszka Forbes have been staying with locals in Saudi Arabia on their latest globe-crossing travels
If it sounds like the fancy of well-heeled retirees, their accommodation plans via a couchsurfing app suggest otherwise. En-route to India, Alan, 62, and Agnieszka, 44, stayed two nights this week with a host in Dammam before another in the Saudi capital Riyadh, with the locals putting them up for free.
‘We are still in our 20s in our heads and we feel young at heart. we love to travel and we’ve both worked in the luxury, deluxe end of the market and stayed in five-star resorts for nothing. The month-long trip, which takes in Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv and Kraków on the way home, will cost them less than £1,000 overall after they found budget flights and accommodation.Alan and Agnieszka pose on the runway at Ba’kelalan Airport in the Malaysian state of Sarawak While they are in southern India, Alan will be adding six new airports to his list and Agnieszka seven —before she also adds the Israeli stop to her tally.
Alan, who has three children and one grandchild, worked for an airline after leaving school before becoming a partner in a travel company.
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