More travel bookings done

I am not very good at updating this blog, am I!! Nearly a month since the last post. Anyway, in the next few months, there will be more frequent posts, as plans are coming to fruition and I am having to spend money on bookings!!! I also promise to update it much more frequently when travelling, so that everyone can share my adventures.

Yep, I have a lovely place to stay in Sydney - at the Y on the Park, in Wentworth Avenue. It is what they call a boutique hotel, and it looks very nice, and "safe" for a girl on her own. It is within walking distance of the centre of town and for me, with limited walking ability and chronic pain, that is an important thing. I don't want to get tired out with walking to somewhere even before I see the place :). In Adelaide I will be at the highly-acclaimed Youth Hostel - do you think I will be young enough to stay there??

I have also booked my flight tickets. OMG the distances and times are HUGE. 17 hours to Perth via a 2-hour flying visit in Singapore (hello Auntie Nina there, whom I am named after); on the way back it is 14.5 hours from Sydney to Mumbai, let alone then getting to Delhi :-0). The quick trips to Europe next year will be peanuts by comparison.

At work, my plans for my career break are now well-known in the Faculty, as I had them published in our Faculty magazine. The overall reaction was "well done; sounds an amazing trip; look after yourself and enjoy it as much as you can before coming back here!" I intend to, don't you worry!

With all this rain we are having in the UK I am really looking forward to the blue skies and azure seas of the Indian Ocean of Western Australia in their summer time. Can't wait.....

OK, that's it for now.