It has been a fairly busily crazy week and a bit since my last blog update. Work has gone totally nuts with a huge new job that will keep me busy (very busy) right up until we go overseas. It still feels very surreal that we're actually heading overseas in what is now less than 6 weeks, like I can't quite get my head around the fact that I'm actually going to be visiting all these places that I've been reading about, or frantically trawling through to find accommodation. Tonight was the night that sorted out the very last of the accommodation, and I booked the last flight of our trip: from Venice back to London. So I guess in that sense it's something to celebrate a little, that all the annoying aspects of organising a trip are now sorted out, so I can instead look forward to it. The only way I seem to be able to make it real is if I think about the real basics of the trip: the plane journey (which I'm not exactly looking forward to as long-haul flights suck arse), arriving at the airport in London, working out how best to get to our first hotel, and so on. I suppose that because the whole thing feels so huge, it's difficult to get my head around unless I just look at it piece by piece. Anyway, I guess that's enough talk about the upcoming holiday. It seems to occupy a lot of the time I find myself talking to not-so-well-known acquaintances and the like. It's a safe subject, interesting and easy to delve into someone else's past expe ...
Anytime
