Plimsolls

My bedroom is in a state of disarray. I like to think it's organised chaos. Pulling all my wardrobe out, throwing clothes about, moving wires around but not actually putting them in anything. Finding things i've not seen for years and getting completely sidetracked. I have the attention span of a puppy. Couple that with high sentimentality and you can probably see why this isn't going well.

I bought far too much bubble wrap. FAR TOO MUCH. I have no idea what was going through my head when i went into the 99p shop on the Kingsland road. It's very easy to think "wow, everything 99p. I'm going to buy everything". Hmm. Guess i could wrap the TV again.

Back to sentimentality. I'm throwing out my £6 pair of Matalan pumps. I would call them plimsolls but i've been informed from a good source that plimsolls have to have a plimsoll line on the side, as in a plimsoll line on the side of ships. I've had these pumps for a year, and they're probably the comfiest and best £6 i've ever spent. Goodbye friends of my feet!

Unemployed

Everyone's back at work, Christmas and new year a distant memory. The rat race has fully kicked off again, and I'm at home. As much as i don't want to be a part of that at the moment, or out in the high winds and driving rain, it feels mighty odd, not having a job.

Had to go to the India commission this morning to clear up some visa issues. Seems they don't like it when you cross stuff out with pen on the application and I had to do the whole thing again. They said it should be back by Thursday. Lets hope so, as i'm going to France on Friday and need my passport back!

On a more positive note: the Vietnam visa finalised! Love the stamp.

Android blogger

Ventured out on this beautiful day to take a few pictures around Islington, with the laptop and card reader, trying to emulate being away. Popped into Costa for a coffee, got the laptop out and transferred the photo's fine - then tried to connect to Wi-Fi and realised Costa don't actually have Wi-Fi! Doh. Got onto another Wi-Fi but it was painfully slow so i couldn't upload any photos. I'd call that a fail. Mental note: check for Wi-Fi before i purchase anything.

This did prompt me into finding the Android blogger app though, which seems to work nicely.

Here's some fallout from someone's NYE party i noticed on the pavement. Did amuse me!

Happy new year!

Welcome to my travel diary! This is mainly for me to look back on in my golden years but also for family and friends to keep track of me over the next year+. I'm not particularly good at writing, and have never had a blog before so i hope it doesn't read too bad - let me know in the comments if i'm giving you a headache!

I was going to build this diary on my website but found out that blogger now links nicely into Google+, Google photo's, Google maps etc. and seeing as i store my whole life in Google services it made sense.  I'll use my website as my photography portfolio and general hub for my web presence.

So. January 1st 2012. This is where the adventure starts. For those that don't know, at the end of January i'm heading off for at least a year, backpacking through India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia etc. and down to New Zealand, around this time next year. Apart from a DSLR, laptop and kindle i'm packing light, very light. I'll go into this more in a later post but for now i wish you a Happy new year! Make it a good one :)