This time tomorrow I'll be sitting in New York. One big city to another.
But I'm not going to stick around there for very long - the next day I'll be heading up to Toronto, either by Bus or by organising a ride in a car, depending on how things work out. Haven't figured out many plans about what to do while over here; just figured I'd make it up as I go along. Unfortunately it's a little more difficult in the US (or perhaps just expensive) to jump on a train to another city if I get bored of a place than in Europe. One can do that with Buses, to some extent, but these are LONG journey times. We'll see.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
That Icy Place
Long time since I last wrote anything; getting close to two months even.
Wow, I've done a fair bit since then - including going back to London at least three times (four?).
After 84 days away, I finally flew back to London from Carcassone. It wasn't that exciting. In fact, whenever I'm back in London now I seem to simply be waiting to leave again. Probably because of the lack of home and job thing.
I'm not sure what I should write about.
I went to Iceland, for 10 days. That was pretty fun, though it rained quite a bit, and it was rather cold, especially for summer. It surprised me somewhat that a country that is 1000 years old can still only have a population of about 300,000. Especially given how much they like to have sex there (so I was told...) - there's not a whole lot else to do. However after spending some time there I can kind of understand why people don't stick around - it's a really beautiful place - like New Zealand taken to the extreme, except no trees. But Summer is pretty shitty (for Summer), and I imagine the Winter is bloody freezing. I understand why people want to bugger off somewhere else. Given the choice of lying on the beach in Spain or freezing in Iceland, it's a pretty easy decision.
I make it sound like it is a horrible place. It's actually really nice, and I would like to go back there some time and do the whole Ring Road, either hitch-hiking or renting a car with some friends. But I wouldn't want to live there.
Still, it was definitely somewhere 'different' to go. Iceland isn't on the Kontiki route. :)
I'm going to the US in a couple of weeks. Don't really know where I'll go or what I'll do yet; take it as it comes I guess.
Wow, I've done a fair bit since then - including going back to London at least three times (four?).
After 84 days away, I finally flew back to London from Carcassone. It wasn't that exciting. In fact, whenever I'm back in London now I seem to simply be waiting to leave again. Probably because of the lack of home and job thing.
I'm not sure what I should write about.
I went to Iceland, for 10 days. That was pretty fun, though it rained quite a bit, and it was rather cold, especially for summer. It surprised me somewhat that a country that is 1000 years old can still only have a population of about 300,000. Especially given how much they like to have sex there (so I was told...) - there's not a whole lot else to do. However after spending some time there I can kind of understand why people don't stick around - it's a really beautiful place - like New Zealand taken to the extreme, except no trees. But Summer is pretty shitty (for Summer), and I imagine the Winter is bloody freezing. I understand why people want to bugger off somewhere else. Given the choice of lying on the beach in Spain or freezing in Iceland, it's a pretty easy decision.
I make it sound like it is a horrible place. It's actually really nice, and I would like to go back there some time and do the whole Ring Road, either hitch-hiking or renting a car with some friends. But I wouldn't want to live there.
Still, it was definitely somewhere 'different' to go. Iceland isn't on the Kontiki route. :)
I'm going to the US in a couple of weeks. Don't really know where I'll go or what I'll do yet; take it as it comes I guess.
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