Life can sometimes get in the way. As evidenced by the fact that neither of us has posted here at all in a million years. My other blog is lacking some love as well..
If you've been living on the moon in a maximum security moon-mansion, supping champagne and eating moon caviar for the past year then I've got a newsflash for you: there's a recession on. As a result of this my esteemed companion, the doctor, has found herself somewhat employmently-challenged. Don't stress; it's nothing serious and she's landed on her feet as you might expect. It just means that there's a good deal of uncertainty regarding money and the likelihood of it being 'totally cool' to take a month + off work at a smallish company that she'll only have been working at for 6 months. I myself have holiday booked and some job uncertainty myself which has made us question the wisdom of an extended trip across an entire continent.
Also one of us, I won't say which, is bangin' this hot mexican chick so is far too distracted to spend the necessary time intricately planning an intra-continental trip to South America. And I'm too lazy to do it all myself.
Another reason why South America is on permanent hiatus is we've both woken up to the ridiculousness of trying to pack a medium-large sized continent into a single month. It's a thing that people take gap years to do for pete's sake!
Don't get me wrong, I'm still up for the South America. And I'll certainly go there at some point, with or without the doctor. Perhaps in less ambitious, country by country visits. It's just not happening at this moment in our lives. I think we both pretty much saw all the above reasons a few months ago but have only recently admitted it to each other. We were both, I think, pleased to discover that we had been privately in complete agreement for that time.
It's a shame, it's sad but it's not the end of the story...
We may need a new banner for this blog.
JAPAN
We both love the Japan.
It's still an extravagent trip that we'd both love to do but would probably never want to do alone. I for one have struggled to persuade other people in the past to take that flight & expense, but when I pitched Japan to Dr Webb you should have seen the way her eyes lit up! It's the land of the future - of course we'd both wanna go.
So the pros:
- It's the land of the future. They've got phones there that make my iphone look like a pocket calculator
- Tokyo & general Japan can be 'done' in a fortnight, comfortably. Without 'rushin about' Therefore it's a reasonable holiday
- Flights are not as expensive as you may think. And actually cheaper than any of the returns we saw to South America
- It will be hella easier to organise we'll just need to book flights and accomodation
- Drastically reduced chance of kidnapping and other nastiness such as diseases & killer bees
- Japan has a rich and fascinating culture. The similarities of an island nation make it particularly interesting as it's kind of a Bizarro-Britain
- Technology
The Cons
- Money wasted on South America guide books. Actually they were interesting reading anyway... Still, I wonder if I can do a trade-in...
So yeah, I'm trying (again) to learn a bit of Hiragana as a start to getting some basic conversational Japanese down. The departure date is going to be late November, probably.
I know what you're thinking: "fickle. This is evidence that Edd can't acheive anything travel related, nor can he make up his mind. This Japan trip is as doomed as South America". My answer to that is: possibly! But you can't blame me for dreaming.
Onwards, Clare!
