I'm finally motivated to blog....couple of things have happened in life - went on holiday, got engaged, parents met etc etc but let's focus on my favourite subject - travel.
The bride is planning a 10 day vacay in Italy - making me incredibly jealous - very excited for her but still incredibly jealous and we got to discussing our top travel destinations that we want to visit. All of The Bride's currently seem to be in Europe. (1. paris 2. rome/ venice (though now florence also) 3. london 4. dublin 5. scotland. 6. moscow. 7 prague. 8. berlin).
I have a travel agenda for the next 3 yrs where I plan to strike off 1.New York 2. Istanbul (Turkey) 3. Angkor Wat/South East Asian island preferably Koh Samui. Post which, I will be looking at South America - Inca and Mayan civilizations{Machu Pichu- here I come!!] and also torn between the Eastern European countries like Prague etc. This list does not even include a trip to New Zealand where I will spend more than 6 days this time and explore the South Island.
There are so many places in the world that I will never get to see and this really causes me pain!
I will get down to making a comprehensive list of where all I need to go in the world and post it so I can have the pleasure of ticking it off/striking it through when I'm done!
Also, I have discovered new music after quite a while - In addition to the love of my life Robert Pattinson, 'Twilight' film also introduced me to a band called Muse whose track 'Super Massive Black Hole' is in the soundtrack. I really like the sound and realised how much I missed knowing good music or just hearing different things. In the middle of these discussions, I learnt about Damien Rice and also the sound of Gomez both of which I'm currently enamoured and listening to on loop on youtube. It's music like this which makes me realise why I need a Mp3 music player and why just radio on the phone is not enough!
I also appear to have given up reading - the last books I read were on holiday - Curtis Sittenfeld's Man of my dreams - eminently skippable and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go which I found very interesting - I also remember watching a movie on the same thoughts - 'The Island' starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannsen. Since then I have started a Joanne Harris 'Rune Marks' and the last in the Thursday Next series 'First Among Sequels' - both of which are still pending completion.
5 comments:
I forgot Portugal and Greece (wahhhh!!!). So many places, so little money. Asked V for his list yesterday and it was: Kashmir, Machu Pichu and Greenland or wherever there are igloos(!!!). I like Machu Pichu also... just so that I can say Machu Pichu. And I forgot to suggest you visit China, not too expensive and generally awesome.
Highly recommend Istanbul. And if you make it to Turkey, spare a couple of days for Cappadocia. It's awesome.
@thebride: China is on my list but I don't know whether I should prioritise it over other places so very torn there.
@Broom: I've seen/heard of Cappadocia - was definitely going to hop there as well!
all roads lead thru Amsterdam.
How could I forget - Leh-Ladakh? Did I mention the artic circle? beginning of time as well - one of those pacific islands! then of course Hollywood + southern most tip of the world.
@the bride: Greece was my honeymoon destination!for some reason, I'm not keen on Portugal.
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