We Should Have Some Nice Swimming Options

Our Mature Gap Year Get’s Closer and It Still Feels Like Work

All we seem to have been doing is moving stuff out of the house and packing things in boxes. The excitement of a one year world journey is hard to feel when all you seem to be doing is giving away all your worldly belongings to a succession of friends, charity shops and family.

It’s not that we don’t want to give these things away, we do, It’s just not really exciting.

Last night we slept on the floor having given our bed away.  Tonight the fridge freezer was picked up, the last remaining TV, my office furniture.

I have spent days trying to book a hotel for the first leg of our tour in Pattaya, Thailand. It’s amazing how few hotels bother to reply to enquiries, but hey, I guess four people for one month is no big deal.

The pile of paperwork on my desk is smaller, we still do have items that should have been done weeks ago but we have put off until now, it’s almost too late. It’s amazing to think as I sit here now tapping this out on my Macbook that this time next week I will be sweltering in the heat of Thailand as outside the house it’s bitterly cold and miserably dark.

My Father took possession of my Mac Pro which is not only the first real computer he has had but also his first experience of the internet, but with us traveling and my sister working in New York it should make keeping in touch easier. This week another car has been sold leaving us with just one, our old faithful Honda shuttle. My father will take this car over after dropping us off at Heathrow airport.

Of course the English pound continues to do a fair impression of a pile of worthless crap seemingly losing value against every currency anywhere in the world. I can’t wait until we actually land so that I can start writing something worth reading, only a few days to go.