It's warm but wet and yesterday in London we had a torrential downpour of hailstones and rain - almost monsoon-like! Retreating indoors to continue our preparations for our extended travels we cleared out our kitchen and cellar. Think I'll write a book entitled "Downsize Me"!
Have discovered a marvellous travel website covering the countries we're visiting (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) called www.travelfish.org which is full of golden nuggets. Continuing also to involve myself and gain wisdom from www.tripadvisor.com, www.virtualtourist.com, www.worldsurface, www.blacktomato.com and many other useful sites. Receiving lots of useful info from fellow travellers and trying to make sense of all the info that's out there.
Meanwhile, Archie is getting to grips and enjoying his new job at amazon.com and Alastair is progressing his VW Camper dream. Last night, had to take our neighbour, the Greenpeace VW owner, Bob Wilson, to casualty last night after a particularly nasty incident involving a ladder, a light bulb and a wet night in Hackney and hope that the home-made leek and potato soup provided a modicum of solace after the incident!
Still trying to take advantage of the last four weeks of access to my wonderful baby grand whose rich tones I will miss when we're away, as well, of course, children, family and friends but getting appropriately excited about forthcoming travels and hoping that various elements of technology (weather, maps, trip advice, emails, mobile etc) will perform as they should.
Off to Brittany on Thursday for a long weekend and to close up Ville Cario until the Spring. Long range weather forecast suggests it might be 20 degrees plus and sunny - hurrah!
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