Poland, Back Home, Spain and off again

Poland trip to be added. To be added

The last few months have been spent hunting for temp jobs as I knew I was going to be around for a few months and then trying to get a job for a ski season. Neither really worked out. The rest of the time was spent organizing the Trans Siberian Trip. And god did that take time. I spent weeks with Graham researching train times and visas and blogs etc. To the point we finally gave up on the ghost of organizing the trains in advance. The cost of doing so was 40% on top of the ticket price. So as it is going to be end of September before we arrive, it will be end of season. Therefore the logic is… more chance of getting them when we get there.

The visa situation was as interesting. I first had to get a new passport as I only had one page left but years left on the actual passport. All those stamps from those work trips to the US. This took about 2 weeks, then I had to drop the passports into this agency (Real Russia) which took 10 days to process getting our Russian visa. I then queued up at the Chinese Embassy for a few hours to drop my passports in there and collect 3 days later, after I returned from a week in Ireland for my cousins wedding. And I had to have my passport before going to Porto Banus for Janet’s birthday mid September. It was a close call but managed to do it with a few days to spare. Stressful is just not the word. I had to have all my stuff packed and removed to Storage before the 14th September. God but this was hell, as I managed to get some work for 2 weeks which meant that all the packing had to be literally stuffed into 4 days instead of the 3 weeks I had planned. Ah the sheer joy of it.

And then I went to Spain with Janet, Ali Smith, Shak and Honorah. If I thought I would get some rest on this trip I was soooooo mistaken. They just wore me out. The earliest we got to bed was 2.30am and that was the first night. Our days were spent giggling on the beach and nights were spent quaffing wine and getting down on any dance floor that would have us.