For Australia and the rest of my travels I want to buy an Mp3 player to take with me, particularly a 30GB iPod http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/591/799/-/815353/Apple_iPod_30GB_White/Product.html?searchtype=genre, however I have some questions that I if anyone could answer.
I was told that if I add music to an iPod in another country will wipe its memory clean and I would have to start from afresh. That does not bother me. What does concern me is I want to be able to store all my photos taken on my digital camera on it, I'm just wondering will putting pictures on it in Australia or America etc. etc. wipe the iPod clean. If not then I can show people I meet on my way where I have been and what I have doing, without carrying a photo album about.
If this is going to wipe the date I would rather spend £30 less and get this Sony Mp3 20 GB player http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/595/803/-/732042/Sony_NWA3000_Walkman_20GB_MP3_Player/Product.html?searchtype=genre I have no wish to use the video function of the iPod and so I wouldn’t need to buy the 30GB iPod, but the 4GB iPod which is the same price as the 30GB Sony. For me there is no comparison between a Sony 20GB Mp3 player and a 4GB iPod that are the same price. It’s the Sony every time.
Whilst I have mentioned Mp3s I thought I would start a discussion on whether or not I should take one with me. Whilst I was reading through my BUNAC advice booklet I came across advice telling travellers not taking an IPod/Mp3 player or expensive electronic items with them. I am not yet a seasoned traveller, although I want to become one obviously, but it strikes me that I am no more at risk in Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns or any other big city in Australia or the rest of the world than I am in Manchester or London where, if I had an Mp3 player now I would take it. And also, surely for someone who is travelling long distances for a long amount of time, a good book and a music player would seem to me to be vital components of travelling to alleviate the boredom? But maybe that is just my inexperience showing through, or it could be the advisors just covering themselves in case someone complains they weren't warned. Oh well, I think I'm going to take one anyway, despite 'advice' to the contrary, unless someone with unbiased, not covering themselves, advice wants to chip in.
Only 10 weeks and 6days left to go. It's all rather exciting but still lots to do, I have to go to the docs, dentists and opticians, set up a bank account, buy clothes, decide what I am going to take with me, buy a plug converter thingy, inform everyone I know the address of this blog, write more in my personal journal, of course buy an iPod, save up more money, try not to panic, resend application for VIP Backpackers card and IYTC Card, I’m not sure if I have forgotten anything but do those things I have forgotten.
So back to the question, simply put does anyone know if using the picture saving facility on a 30GB iPod in Australia, America or anywhere else in the world will wipe the iPod clean of any info already saved on it? Also does using it in any other country’s computer wipe the date or can I just recharge my iPod via a USB in another country without wiping the date on it? The info anyone provides is vital to my travelling plans.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Film Review - Roger Dodger (2002)
Roger Dodger (2002)
Vital Statistics
Director(s)
Dylan Kidd
Writer(s)
Dylan Kidd
Starring:
Campbell Scott
Jesse Eisenberg
Isabella Rossellini
Elizabeth Berkeley
Jennifer Beals
Review
These days, many films are predictable, you can tell what will happen, or thereabouts, with relative ease; characters will develop in roughly the manner expected and, save twists, so does the story. What is often more important in films that have a predictable tale, is the way the story is spun, its not what happens so much as how it happens. Roger Dodger is one of these ‘many films.’
The story is about how both a womanising uncle and his naïve, 16 year old, nephew grow and develop when the latter visits the former in the big city in order to get help in loosing his virginity. So far this does not sound the most original of films, and that assumption would be correct. So we come back to the discussion, that it is not what happens but how it all happens and from that angle Roger Dodger does have the edge over its competition.
Campbell Scott stars as Roger, uncle to Jesse Eisenberg’s Nick; a big city high flier who avoids speaking to his family and is thus surprised when Nick turns up unexpected. Scott is near perfect as the arrogant, bastard that is Roger, he is not a likeable character, and for a film to put its lead character as a really, truly, un-likeable is a rarity. You don’t even root for him to change and become ‘a better person,’ you don’t pity him, even when he gets to his lowest ebb, urging his nephew to take advantage of a drunken woman.
Eisenberg is the polar opposite of Scott, excellent, as his is young, inexperienced and desperate nephew who matures on one night out with his uncle. He epitomises every awkward 16 year old boy and their wishes, the film‘s title and lead may be Roger but the film is as much about Nick and his journey and development.
The script is witty and clever and the direction helped by some excellent hand held camera work. First time writer-director Dylan Kidd wrote some excellent dialogue, [Roger to his nephew who doesn’t want to drink alcohol - ‘You drink that drink! Alcohol has been a social lubricant for thousands of years. What do you think, you're going to sit here tonight and reinvent the wheel?] but dialogue is also the film’s letdown. The dialogue continues, long after it should have stopped and Kidd hammers home various points - womanising is wrong, Roger is a bastard. This hammering hampers the subtlety towards the end of the film, the subtlety of change and character development that you can see Kidd was aiming to achieve.
With excellent performances, and a script that often makes you think, Roger Dodger is a flawed but enjoyable film, a film that is predictable in its outcome but getting there is done in in great style and sometimes unsual fashion.
Star Rating
3½ stars
Vital Statistics
Director(s)
Dylan Kidd
Writer(s)
Dylan Kidd
Starring:
Campbell Scott
Jesse Eisenberg
Isabella Rossellini
Elizabeth Berkeley
Jennifer Beals
Review
These days, many films are predictable, you can tell what will happen, or thereabouts, with relative ease; characters will develop in roughly the manner expected and, save twists, so does the story. What is often more important in films that have a predictable tale, is the way the story is spun, its not what happens so much as how it happens. Roger Dodger is one of these ‘many films.’
The story is about how both a womanising uncle and his naïve, 16 year old, nephew grow and develop when the latter visits the former in the big city in order to get help in loosing his virginity. So far this does not sound the most original of films, and that assumption would be correct. So we come back to the discussion, that it is not what happens but how it all happens and from that angle Roger Dodger does have the edge over its competition.
Campbell Scott stars as Roger, uncle to Jesse Eisenberg’s Nick; a big city high flier who avoids speaking to his family and is thus surprised when Nick turns up unexpected. Scott is near perfect as the arrogant, bastard that is Roger, he is not a likeable character, and for a film to put its lead character as a really, truly, un-likeable is a rarity. You don’t even root for him to change and become ‘a better person,’ you don’t pity him, even when he gets to his lowest ebb, urging his nephew to take advantage of a drunken woman.
Eisenberg is the polar opposite of Scott, excellent, as his is young, inexperienced and desperate nephew who matures on one night out with his uncle. He epitomises every awkward 16 year old boy and their wishes, the film‘s title and lead may be Roger but the film is as much about Nick and his journey and development.
The script is witty and clever and the direction helped by some excellent hand held camera work. First time writer-director Dylan Kidd wrote some excellent dialogue, [Roger to his nephew who doesn’t want to drink alcohol - ‘You drink that drink! Alcohol has been a social lubricant for thousands of years. What do you think, you're going to sit here tonight and reinvent the wheel?] but dialogue is also the film’s letdown. The dialogue continues, long after it should have stopped and Kidd hammers home various points - womanising is wrong, Roger is a bastard. This hammering hampers the subtlety towards the end of the film, the subtlety of change and character development that you can see Kidd was aiming to achieve.
With excellent performances, and a script that often makes you think, Roger Dodger is a flawed but enjoyable film, a film that is predictable in its outcome but getting there is done in in great style and sometimes unsual fashion.
Star Rating
3½ stars
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Film Reviews - Teen Movies - Date Movie, Just Friends, Man of the House
Teen movies
Date Movie (2006)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Aaron Seltzer
Writer(s) Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Griffin, Adam Campbell
Just Friends (2005)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Roger Kumble
Writer(s) Adam Davies
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris
Man of the House (2005)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Stephen Herek
Writer(s) Matthew Stone, John J. McLaughlin, Robert Ramsey
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Christina Milian, Cedric the Entertainer
Review
Without wanting to state the obvious - but going to do so anyway - teen comedies are not, on the whole, aimed at movie critics and reviewers. The acting in them is rarely above average, the comedy can be crude, vulgar and offensive. They are not all bad, some can surprise you, and they are, after all, movies and they must be reviewed (ignoring them is not an option) every job has its downsides - of which Date Movie is most certainly one.
Date Movie is written by 2 of the six writers of Scary Movie. If that brief introduction did not warn you off the film, here is a less subtle approach. This film is awful, so awful that this reviewer could not even brave the last 20 minutes. Occasionally you may smirk or even smile but it isn’t worth it for the sheer boredom and disgust that the rest of the film offers. There is no point even entering into the plot which spoofs the likes of reality to shows to Kill Bill and Meet the Fockers. The only thing left to comment upon is Alyson Hannigan, who showed such promise and ability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - may her career rest in peace.
The humour of Just Friends and Man of the House are two teen movies very different from both each other and Date Movie. Just Friends is aimed at the mid to older teen market (more sex jokes) whilst Man of the House is aimed at the younger teens (less sex jokes.)
The star of Just Friends is not the two leads (Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart) but Anna Faris as the self proclaimed lover of Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds stars as Chris Brander, a formerly fat, unlucky in love, who becomes a smooth operating player after the love-of-his-life Amy (I’m boring but pretty) Smart does not reciprocate his love at the high school prom. Years later, after the transformation from fat-to-fit, Reynolds is trapped in his home town, with Smart still there, having gone no where with her life.
The humour of Just Friends is halfway between Date Movie and Man of the House, it isn’t a spoof (so no worries there) but it is a little crude and the humour can be in your face. Reynolds is OK but Smart is boring and that is where the problem lies. Reynolds character is supposed to love Smart’s, but she is boring, one could go into the psychological aspects of Brander not being able to let go of his past - but it isn’t that type of film it is a film where her being attractive is reason enough. The films saving grace is Anna Faris, who is highly amusing as the hyperactive, self-obsessed, celebrity sending up all those wannabe divas out there. Just Friends is an amusing date movie but like the majority of teen movies it feels like it has been churned out of a factory, that said it does have its moments, just not often enough.
In Man of the House Tommy Lee Jones stars as Roland Sharp, a Texas Ranger who has to protect five cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. Jones does his trade mark gruff, hard-exterior, soft-interior performance; and the idea of putting this into a film with five very attractive cheerleaders’ works surprisingly well. Jones looks, unsurprisingly, like he is enjoying every moment as he becomes a surrogate dad to the cheerleaders whilst learning how to become a real dad to his 17 year old daughter. The five cheerleaders, led by singer-turned-actress, Christina Milian are not as forgettable as on might expect; there are no performances that are of particular note but likewise there are none which are below average. Where Man of the House excels over Date Movie and Just Friends is in its accessibility, this is a teen movie with a heart and it also benefits from lacking the crudeness, vulgarity and obscenities that feature in the other two films. Nothing new, nothing special but nothing bad either.
Star Rating
Date Movie - does not even deserve a star, it is below stardom, minus stars, it gives stars to films who don’t normally deserve stars because it is that bad.
Just Friends - 2 stars
Man of the House - 2½ stars
Trivia
It took 4 hours just to make the 12 pound face on Ryan Reynolds. (source imdb.com)
Date Movie (2006)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Aaron Seltzer
Writer(s) Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
Starring: Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Griffin, Adam Campbell
Just Friends (2005)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Roger Kumble
Writer(s) Adam Davies
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris
Man of the House (2005)
Vital Statistics
Dir(s) Stephen Herek
Writer(s) Matthew Stone, John J. McLaughlin, Robert Ramsey
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Christina Milian, Cedric the Entertainer
Review
Without wanting to state the obvious - but going to do so anyway - teen comedies are not, on the whole, aimed at movie critics and reviewers. The acting in them is rarely above average, the comedy can be crude, vulgar and offensive. They are not all bad, some can surprise you, and they are, after all, movies and they must be reviewed (ignoring them is not an option) every job has its downsides - of which Date Movie is most certainly one.
Date Movie is written by 2 of the six writers of Scary Movie. If that brief introduction did not warn you off the film, here is a less subtle approach. This film is awful, so awful that this reviewer could not even brave the last 20 minutes. Occasionally you may smirk or even smile but it isn’t worth it for the sheer boredom and disgust that the rest of the film offers. There is no point even entering into the plot which spoofs the likes of reality to shows to Kill Bill and Meet the Fockers. The only thing left to comment upon is Alyson Hannigan, who showed such promise and ability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - may her career rest in peace.
The humour of Just Friends and Man of the House are two teen movies very different from both each other and Date Movie. Just Friends is aimed at the mid to older teen market (more sex jokes) whilst Man of the House is aimed at the younger teens (less sex jokes.)
The star of Just Friends is not the two leads (Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart) but Anna Faris as the self proclaimed lover of Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds stars as Chris Brander, a formerly fat, unlucky in love, who becomes a smooth operating player after the love-of-his-life Amy (I’m boring but pretty) Smart does not reciprocate his love at the high school prom. Years later, after the transformation from fat-to-fit, Reynolds is trapped in his home town, with Smart still there, having gone no where with her life.
The humour of Just Friends is halfway between Date Movie and Man of the House, it isn’t a spoof (so no worries there) but it is a little crude and the humour can be in your face. Reynolds is OK but Smart is boring and that is where the problem lies. Reynolds character is supposed to love Smart’s, but she is boring, one could go into the psychological aspects of Brander not being able to let go of his past - but it isn’t that type of film it is a film where her being attractive is reason enough. The films saving grace is Anna Faris, who is highly amusing as the hyperactive, self-obsessed, celebrity sending up all those wannabe divas out there. Just Friends is an amusing date movie but like the majority of teen movies it feels like it has been churned out of a factory, that said it does have its moments, just not often enough.
In Man of the House Tommy Lee Jones stars as Roland Sharp, a Texas Ranger who has to protect five cheerleaders who witnessed a murder. Jones does his trade mark gruff, hard-exterior, soft-interior performance; and the idea of putting this into a film with five very attractive cheerleaders’ works surprisingly well. Jones looks, unsurprisingly, like he is enjoying every moment as he becomes a surrogate dad to the cheerleaders whilst learning how to become a real dad to his 17 year old daughter. The five cheerleaders, led by singer-turned-actress, Christina Milian are not as forgettable as on might expect; there are no performances that are of particular note but likewise there are none which are below average. Where Man of the House excels over Date Movie and Just Friends is in its accessibility, this is a teen movie with a heart and it also benefits from lacking the crudeness, vulgarity and obscenities that feature in the other two films. Nothing new, nothing special but nothing bad either.
Star Rating
Date Movie - does not even deserve a star, it is below stardom, minus stars, it gives stars to films who don’t normally deserve stars because it is that bad.
Just Friends - 2 stars
Man of the House - 2½ stars
Trivia
It took 4 hours just to make the 12 pound face on Ryan Reynolds. (source imdb.com)
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Travelling Post No.2: I'm getting lots of things through snail mail - this may be real.
BUNAC keep sending me information through the post, which kinda makes me think this is all real. Because of my oh so negative personality though i'm not counting my chickens until 24th August - that's 10 weeks before I leave and the latest they could cancel this all on me. Althougth when that day comes I think it will all hit me. At the moment i'm not quite sure that I fully realise what i have taken on, should be fun when I do. Also when the 24th August comes along and i don't recieve any cancellation notices i think I might be going around in a hyperactive manner comparable to someone with ADHD.
I've paid my travel insurance today £637 for 16months - which sounds really expensive but if you go away for 90 days to Australia you'll pay around £294.00 with the Post Office and I can't find anywhere else that offers the cover they do and for that length of time. After that dent in the funds i now need £1,600 over the next 12 weeks and 2 days. I am luck as my boss has said she'll give me all hours god sends in the pub so I can earn as much as possible. She has offered me a job on my return - the advantages of working for someone who's almost family. I am also gonna set up an ebay account and sell some DVDs to free up some cash, that is if i can bring my self to part with any.
I am also starting a list of things i think i will miss (feel free to add to this) - I'm gonna compare this to what i did miss when I get back in 16 months. I'm also doing this cos I like lists, it's in no order either.
1) Warbuton's sliced bread
2) Cadbury's Chocolate
3) Fish 'n' Chips
5) Family and Friends (maybe...)
6) British weather (honest)
7) Regular TV
8) Films and the cinema
9) A regular bed
10) A comfy bed
11) People who can understand my accent and dialect.. even if they can only just understand it
12) Routine
13) A comfort zone
14) Regular internet access
Today I also went clothes shopping for my travels - i need another jumper, a couple of T-shirts and a couple of pairs of shorts. I can't take too much as i have a 20Kg limit (and i think my bag weighs in at around three quarters of that), plus it's cheaper for shorts and stuff out there - but i still need some, i can't go naked and i only have one pair of shorts and a handful of T-shirts I actually like. However i am useless at shopping and bought zilch, I cannot tell what suits me, and so i need my personal shoppers to help...
I've paid my travel insurance today £637 for 16months - which sounds really expensive but if you go away for 90 days to Australia you'll pay around £294.00 with the Post Office and I can't find anywhere else that offers the cover they do and for that length of time. After that dent in the funds i now need £1,600 over the next 12 weeks and 2 days. I am luck as my boss has said she'll give me all hours god sends in the pub so I can earn as much as possible. She has offered me a job on my return - the advantages of working for someone who's almost family. I am also gonna set up an ebay account and sell some DVDs to free up some cash, that is if i can bring my self to part with any.
I am also starting a list of things i think i will miss (feel free to add to this) - I'm gonna compare this to what i did miss when I get back in 16 months. I'm also doing this cos I like lists, it's in no order either.
1) Warbuton's sliced bread
2) Cadbury's Chocolate
3) Fish 'n' Chips
5) Family and Friends (maybe...)
6) British weather (honest)
7) Regular TV
8) Films and the cinema
9) A regular bed
10) A comfy bed
11) People who can understand my accent and dialect.. even if they can only just understand it
12) Routine
13) A comfort zone
14) Regular internet access
Today I also went clothes shopping for my travels - i need another jumper, a couple of T-shirts and a couple of pairs of shorts. I can't take too much as i have a 20Kg limit (and i think my bag weighs in at around three quarters of that), plus it's cheaper for shorts and stuff out there - but i still need some, i can't go naked and i only have one pair of shorts and a handful of T-shirts I actually like. However i am useless at shopping and bought zilch, I cannot tell what suits me, and so i need my personal shoppers to help...
Friday, August 04, 2006
Film Review - Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
Filmfour is ace. i watched Dead Man's Chest as my first free film, below is the review, it's repeated a fair few times over the next week if you wanna goosey gander.
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
Vital Statistics
Genre
Drame/Thriller
Director(s)
Shane Meadows
Writer(s)
Paddy Considine & Shane Meadows
Starring
Paddy Considine
Gary Stretch
Toby Kebbell
Review
Can someone please tell Shane Meadows that the British film industry is dead; apparently he hasn’t heard as Dead Man’s Shoes is one hell of a film and more than that - it is a very British film.
Paddy Considine plays Richard, a former British soldier out for revenge for the way his simple minded brother was treated at the hands of some small time druggies. So far it doesn’t read to be much different than the majority of Hollywood revenge films, but it is. Dead Man’s Shoes is set in a rural English town and the ‘bad guys’ drive around in a cramped and very old VW Beetle. Do not take this description to mean that this is a Sunday afternoon stroll type of British film, this is no Last of the Summer Wine, it is often brutal and has an 18 rating for a reason. This is Britain’s version of an American small town revenge thriller - but it trumps almost anything that Hollywood has produced in the ‘revenge thriller’ genre in recent years.
Paddy Considine, starring in a film penned by himself and Shane Meadows, puts in a performance easily on par with any Oscar contender. Considine portrays his character with an emotion and viciousness rarely seen; he is almost the whole film and without his gruff, vengeful depiction the film undoubtedly would not be as good as it is. That said the supporting cast are, on the whole, excellent but the presence felt by Considine is impressive and missed when he is absent to the extent that the screen almost feel smaller when he is not there.
Under the confident direction of Shane Meadows, what could have been another revenge flick turns into something quite special. With a great meandering soundtrack to boot there is very little to dislike about this film, the main issue is with the casts strong accents, understanding what they say is not easy - and the bloody violence is never to everyone’s taste.
Dead Man’s Shoes is not just British filmmaking at its best, but simply filmmaking at its best. Films don’t come much better.
4 1/2stars
Trivia
Paddy Considine won the Empire Award for Best British Actor but wasn’t even nominated for a BAFTA in a year where no British Actor was nominated for a leading actor award - talk about celebrating British film. Although it was nominated for Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film it lost to My Summer of Love
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
Vital Statistics
Genre
Drame/Thriller
Director(s)
Shane Meadows
Writer(s)
Paddy Considine & Shane Meadows
Starring
Paddy Considine
Gary Stretch
Toby Kebbell
Review
Can someone please tell Shane Meadows that the British film industry is dead; apparently he hasn’t heard as Dead Man’s Shoes is one hell of a film and more than that - it is a very British film.
Paddy Considine plays Richard, a former British soldier out for revenge for the way his simple minded brother was treated at the hands of some small time druggies. So far it doesn’t read to be much different than the majority of Hollywood revenge films, but it is. Dead Man’s Shoes is set in a rural English town and the ‘bad guys’ drive around in a cramped and very old VW Beetle. Do not take this description to mean that this is a Sunday afternoon stroll type of British film, this is no Last of the Summer Wine, it is often brutal and has an 18 rating for a reason. This is Britain’s version of an American small town revenge thriller - but it trumps almost anything that Hollywood has produced in the ‘revenge thriller’ genre in recent years.
Paddy Considine, starring in a film penned by himself and Shane Meadows, puts in a performance easily on par with any Oscar contender. Considine portrays his character with an emotion and viciousness rarely seen; he is almost the whole film and without his gruff, vengeful depiction the film undoubtedly would not be as good as it is. That said the supporting cast are, on the whole, excellent but the presence felt by Considine is impressive and missed when he is absent to the extent that the screen almost feel smaller when he is not there.
Under the confident direction of Shane Meadows, what could have been another revenge flick turns into something quite special. With a great meandering soundtrack to boot there is very little to dislike about this film, the main issue is with the casts strong accents, understanding what they say is not easy - and the bloody violence is never to everyone’s taste.
Dead Man’s Shoes is not just British filmmaking at its best, but simply filmmaking at its best. Films don’t come much better.
4 1/2stars
Trivia
Paddy Considine won the Empire Award for Best British Actor but wasn’t even nominated for a BAFTA in a year where no British Actor was nominated for a leading actor award - talk about celebrating British film. Although it was nominated for Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film it lost to My Summer of Love
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Travelling Post No.1: And it all begins.. kinda
After years of saying I'm going to go travelling the world to day I filled in an application form and sent a cheque for £2,020 (which reminds me to transfer money from one account to the other) to do Work Australia for 12 months with BUNAC and this also gives me a return ticket via Auckland, Fiji and LA on the return so I can spend 4/5/6 months travelling elsewhere. Very soon after posting the application form I then bought a pair of tevo sandals, as if figured summer time in Australia would be too hot even for me to wear shoes.
Provided my application goes through ok I leave on the 2nd November. And thus with the application form, and oh so big cheque and the pair of sandals it all begins - the sandals means there is no turning back - it got serious when I bought sandals...
It's a little scary really, to think I won't see anyone I know for around 17 months, I won't see Cadbury’s chocolate for 17 months and I won't see the new series of Doctor Who for 17 months.
I think it's going to be an amazing adventure I just hope that it turns out OK, and I'm not resting too much on this being successful. At times it feels like I'm running away, don’t know if that makes sense to anyone but it does. Other times it feels amazing when I think of what could be ahead of me.
Anyway after those musings, my posts on travelling have begun and will continue until I finish travelling in around 20 months time. I have also started a personal journal (not diary that is too feminine a term for me) and at the end I will combine the two (blog and journal) and write a book and sell it and make lots of money... maybe, hopefully, doubtfully.
Provided my application goes through ok I leave on the 2nd November. And thus with the application form, and oh so big cheque and the pair of sandals it all begins - the sandals means there is no turning back - it got serious when I bought sandals...
It's a little scary really, to think I won't see anyone I know for around 17 months, I won't see Cadbury’s chocolate for 17 months and I won't see the new series of Doctor Who for 17 months.
I think it's going to be an amazing adventure I just hope that it turns out OK, and I'm not resting too much on this being successful. At times it feels like I'm running away, don’t know if that makes sense to anyone but it does. Other times it feels amazing when I think of what could be ahead of me.
Anyway after those musings, my posts on travelling have begun and will continue until I finish travelling in around 20 months time. I have also started a personal journal (not diary that is too feminine a term for me) and at the end I will combine the two (blog and journal) and write a book and sell it and make lots of money... maybe, hopefully, doubtfully.
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