Time to get serious

Today is the first day of the month that concludes with boarding the flight from Melbourne to London via Singapore and Dubai. Suddenly the need to throw more effort into reseaarch and organisation seems very urgent. Looking at many options in all sorts of accommodation, one soon becomes brain fatigued just trying to keep track of what currency you are looking at, understanding what that means in the good ol' Aussie dollar .

Very grateful for the proliferation of user reviews contributed by travellers who have gone before and subjected themselves to every variety of cramped, dirty, hostile shelter and survived to tell the tale. Had a lousy fortnight just finished with a virus that knocked the wind out of my sails, with a neat flowon into a very painful infection of a nerve deep in my jaw. That slowed down the planning process a lot. Like, how do you make rational choices when the old brain box is processing at what seems like 10% capacity.

However, our thoughts on where to go and what to see are gradually crystallising. Hoping to get right into some serious accommodation booking and purchase of Eurail passes this weekend. Hope the old broadband connection holds out!