I've retired!

Well, retired at 29 - there's not many that can claim that! The shame of it is that I can't claim my pension until I'm 60, so this retirement lark might be a little short-lived. Ho well, easy come easy go :)

I had a great last week at work - spent a couple of days in Dublin running some informal training and drinking lots of Guiness, then the last couple of days in London, including a hilarious night out in West London. You don't get a gold watch for 1 year's service at AOL, but I was pleasantly surprised by a card and cash leaving present (will probably spend that on a memory card for the camera).

We spent our weekend at my parents' place in Suffolk, celebrating birthdays and enjoying the last throes of the English summer. There's a knife block on the way to join our incredible knife, and Dad's got some quality 60s sci-fi short stories for his next holiday. We ate a delicious meal at The Lighthouse in Aldeburgh - they put a pepper grinder and cylinder of French sea salt on the table instead of the usual salt and pepper cellars (I think that's a new indicator of how good a restaurant is....)

Plenty on our plates for the coming month, though - we've got lists a mile long of things that need doing (updating this blog isn't on any of those lists - I should probably be busy doing something else!). We're getting closer to finalising details of our trip - we've got some flights booked, just need to fiddle about with the dates. Itinerary will be something like:

• London - Nairobi
• overland Nairobi - Dar es Salaam
• Dar es Salaam - Delhi
• overland Delhi - Kathmandu
• Kathmandu - Colombo
• Colombo - Bangkok
• Bangkok - Sydney

It's going to be an amazing trip!