Holidays Make Me Happy :)

I've spent every lunch hour since getting back trawling the internet for information about where I'm travelling to next. (Well, after the planned forays into Teutonia.) I've decided on doing Cambodia (temples, killing fields) and Thailand (beaches, diving) in January, when the weather's supposed to be dry and cool, after the majority of New Year revellers have returned to the Western hemisphere. I'll be carrying over the remaining days of leave from this year to the next, so it means I should still be able to head for Tanzania/Zanzibar at the end of 2009 (the animals would've buggered off to Kenya at that point but that just means I'll have to plan a Kenya trip during migratory season at a later point in my life).

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I've also decided to add the Scottish Highlands to the list of places I want to visit within the next decade. Tedious link: I was reading an article about piracy and the increasing use of armed escorts for merchant ships, noticed a mention about how some private security agencies have employed Gurkhas to meet the demand, wiki-ed Gurkhas to find out why they're so fearsome, read that the British imperialists had included the Gurkhas in their list of "martial races" which were supposedly naturally superior soldiers, noted that the Brits had first taken notice of "martial races" when they observed that Scottish Highlanders fought more bravely than the English (à la Braveheart), looked up the Scottish Highlands and stumbled upon the Lonely Planet entries about them, fell in love with the photos and decided that I must go there within the next few years.

And who knows, I might find a hot architect husband while I'm there.

OR a hot and broody immortal of royal lineage with long dark hair and a sword and a penchant for using said sword to wantonly lop off the heads of other immortals before being engulfed in a bedazzling display of lights that would bring him to his knees. I had the hugest crush on Adrian Paul. Yummy.