The Blob

Well, it's the end of my spectacular little holiday in England. Two weeks of lounging around the house, visiting family and friends, eating way too much junk food and loving every minute of it. I've managed to acquire a NaNoWriMo travel mug and ML stickers, 4 postgraduate prospectuses (from Cardiff, Durham, UCL, and York - and would that be prospecti?), and a new suitcase. I came here with 24kg of check-in luggage and I'm leaving with 9.6kg. My hand luggage weighs more.

It's also been decided that bustahead and I won't be going to Japan in August. This is for a number of reasons, but mostly money. The JET scheme don't pay the upfront fees on housing any more, which is a huge blow for anyone moving to Japan because it's so extortionate. Plus I am really really overdrawn on all my accounts. So I need a settled, full time job or two to get things together. It'll work out in the end. I mean, we all know I can't sit still for five minutes when there are cheap flights leaving daily to all over the world.

And finally, the end date for this job is December 12th. I will be back in the UK some time after that, depending on when the cheapest flight goes. Between then and now I am going to: Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne, and MILAN(!), so I won't be bored! Or rich. LOL.

Adios amigos. Catch ya on the flipside ...

ETA: Landed safe and sound. It's absolutely miserable here, though. Fog and cloud like pea soup as we touched down in Basel, and the trip from the French coast onwards was bumpy and uncomfortable. Blaaarrrgh.

BUT I have internet here at the airport. God bless the French and their airport wifi!

Lookit! Lookit my location! EEEEEEE!

Geneva is pretty awesome. Everyone here is either French or American, so I have equal amounts of trouble understanding people (especially because my brain is stuck in German). But y'know what's the most fabulous thing about my impromptu trip? I am TOTALLY staying in a FOUR STAR HOTEL. HOMG. It's fabulous! There's a minibar, and TV, and a respectable double bed just for me, and the world's most expensive internet connection, and did I mention the MINIBAR? I am watching TV and surfing the web and drinking vodka and coke and eating Pringles and just generally enjoying being 22 (as of Sept 30) and ignoring the fact that I really can't afford this. LOL.

CNN International shows a lot of travel ads that make me really want to go ... travel. Funny, that. I never thought I'd want to hit Bahrain ...