International Sampoon's vacation 2007

It's all becoming more real as we have become homeless and soon to be unemployed. We left our little townhouse in a hurry last week and we are glad to see the last of it. With only a month till we fly out, we are frantically sorting our visas and after much painfull research think we have found a legal loophole! I've finally bought my wheelie bag which doubles as a backpack & am very happy I don't have to lug around 30k on my back all of the time.
It's hard to imagine not working for a whole year! I've counted....17 working days left,...So now I guess our days awaiting to leave will be filled up with sleep-ins, sunbaking and plenty of beer drinking!

Plans so far..
- Fly out March 5 - Ho Chi Minh City
fluff around southern vietnam & have a look in Camodia

- Fly to Northern Vietnam - Hanoi
visit Loas and spend time travelling about in north vietnam

- London 7 May

- Paris 11 May
leasing a little buzzbox citroen. its brand spanking new. Plan to fang it round western europe for the next 5 months

- then Switzerland, venice, rome, cinqu terre, bologna, tuscany and florance, nice

- Barcelona 5 June
booked a gorgeous little apartment 1 block from the famous Sagrada Familla! This will be a highlight, we will be stopping here for one month. Tapas, food markets, gaudi, bars....

- Running of the bulls 7 May - Pamplona

- San Sebastian
for about a week, probably the most beautiful coastal town I've ever visited

- Travelling down the coast of Portugul
visiting Porto, Nazare, Odbidos, Cascais, Logos,

- By the 1st Aug should be in Sevilla
might stay for 2 weeks, its my birthday!

- Tarifa & Gibralter
will trip over to Morrocco to see what all the fuss is about

- Granada
the Alumbra

- La Tomatina - 30 Aug
yes we would love to peg rotten tomatoes at other people. Deffinately some packing of goggles

- September - Southern France somewhere

- Amsterdam -7 Oct
dumping the car & spending a week in Amsterdam before flying off on the
7th

- Back to Ho Chi Minh - 8th Oct
but this time we wanna be on an island in Thailand

- Ko Pangan
one month lazying around on a cruisey island. Chilling out after all that travelling. Planning a full moon party, lots of snorkelling, sun worshipping, eating, drinking, swimming (not in that order mum)

- Ko Tao
as above

- Then some other island, Ko Chang maybe

- Unknown destination for the next 2 months, gotta leave room for spontaneity