Mentioning Christian’s gap year … in another thread … being an actual year made me wonder if he will actually take a whole year.
Is this trip to East Africa more or less it, or will the Crown Prince have a real year of travel and adventure.
When the information about the visit to the Selous Game Reserve with his school friends came out, I noticed that one of the Danish publications had put out an article about Frederik “needing” to send Christian off out of Denmark. (Following on from his summer music festival occasions and the photos/videos coming from that.)
I have no opinion about those, but what caught my attention was this was ten days before the official announcement of the African experience.
The journalist who wrote about Christian said he should be sent to a plantation in Africa … and ten days later we are told he is going to work on two farms there.
But the journalist also suggested he could be sent to a cattle ranch in Argentina.
So, I wonder if there was a slight “leak” before the official announcement, and maybe … if Christian is indeed away from Denmark for a year … he will also get to do that, go to Argentina.
I thought he might go to Vietnam with the ties it had for his Grandfather, and to Tasmania, to the working farm owned by the family of his Godfather there.
Tasmania would be pretty tame after Africa, but it would be a chance to get an understanding of his mother’s upbringing and the first decades of her life.
(I once thought Danes and Aussies had quite a bit in common, but having watched a lot of YouTube’s about Danish social culture, lifestyle and work culture lately, I now think we have some big and significant differences to each other. Tassie, and especially the mainland, might be eye-opening for him, despite us both being Western countries.)
A year is a long time … if he takes a year … so it will be interesting to see where else he may go.
