Long Delayed Update

Hey all, if there is still anyone reading this blog!

I haven't updated in nearly two months, probably since I was in Cambodia, mostly because I still plan to blog about every single day of my trip. Trouble is, I have had almost zero spare time since I landed back in the country on July 10th. The last few weeks at work have been hellish for starters (more on that later) and I ended up having two weeks in a row working nearly 50 hours (welcome home!). Not to mention my MBA, I'm doing my second subject and I'm well behind still...

Plus I have a terrible inability to say "no", so I end up helping to organise Toastmasters contests and indeed competing in them. Not to mention right at this moment building a new computer for my brother...

Trouble is, as I recall I was up to blogging about my second or third day in Paris, which means I have yet to mention Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland or Cambodia! The last few weeks of my trip were a bit manic :-)

I do still want to jot all this stuff down, if only for my sake. I have a shit short term memory and I want to record as much as I can whilst it still fresh in my brain.

So... I will try and find the time to finish writing about Paris at least this week. And I must finish tagging and uploading my pictures.

Speaking Of Travelling....

Man, getting home was HARD. For the first few days I kept on waking up in my bed, looking around and going "what is this strange place???"

And going back to work was a major pain in the butt. Both the projects that I was working on when I left were still going and desperately needed my attention...

And much as I feared, I now have the travel bug - and I'm not talking about the fun Giardia infection I brought back from Cambodia. BTW, looking up pictures of a parasite whilst you actually have the parasite is a really bad idea. I could feel their little flagella flailing...

So, here then are the next three.... No, wait, four... trips I want to take, in roughly the order I want to take them:

Return trip to Cambodia Cambodia freaked me out, in some ways, although I'll go into that more when I get around to blogging about my time there. But I'd like to go back for a few reasons - it's close by, it's warm, it's cheap and the few bucks I spent on things probably genuinely helped the locals. So, possibly as soon as winter of 2010, I'd like to go back for up to three weeks, head to Siem Reap and Ankor, Phnom Penh, and a town on the coast called Kep. Basically, lazing about in the tropics to get away from winter.

Central Australia It's about bloody time I made it to Uluru and the Olga's! Fly in, walk around the Rock, take it from there.

American Cities Trip There are several other cities in the States I'd like to go to. Chicago, San Francisco, to name a couple. So I might try and do a big arc across the country, start in California, end up back in New York.

The Netherlands and more Berlin (shite, I still haven't blogged about my time in Berlin...) I'd like to spend some more time - up to a month - in Berlin. Interesting city, really feel like I only scratched the surface. And I have loads of distant relatives in the Netherlands, so I should pop in there, visit the places my family is from.

And on top of all that, I'd like to live overseas for a couple of years. Not really sure where, except it needs to have a couple of requirements: first world, English as the main language. And somewhere that Deb could also get a job. I could pretty easily get work in London or New York or San Fran or even Chicago, to name some places. Or even Singapore. That might also enable to me to see more of the States - London to New York is not far :-)