Travel plans

Lying awake in bed this morning I got thinking about my travel plans, or rather a lack thereof. I've mostly been arbing around for the two weeks that I've been back in London, with 'open bank account' a priority on my 'to-do' list. Laugh it up - it's taken me over 8 months to open my own account. At one point I waited two weeks for an appointment, during which I filled out all the forms only to wait another two weeks to hear that my proof of address (bank statement from home with UK address on) wasn't acceptable. As a final resort, I applied for a provisional driver's licence. That application was rejected and I've since reapplied. I could rewrite the 'Banks' chapter in London travel guides.

The way I see it, my backpacking plans through first Scotland and then Western Europe (Portugal/France/Spain/Italy) can be approached in two ways. The first approach would be to pack my bag, get only the necessary requirements and then head off into the unknown leaving the rest up to fate. My second option is to plan ahead with a full itinerary of dates, places and the costs involved. No points for guessing which approach I'm taking. I'm not nervous to travel alone; I think as soon as I'm out of London I'll realise just what I'm in for. So again (and stop asking now...), no plans yet - I'll post them here when I know myself. Until then I hope to do loads of research to build up knowledge of what to expect, although I'm open-minded and realise my plans will only serve as a rough guideline. If you have any first-hand travel tips or reasonable advice please forward my way.

I've booked my place for the Monopoly Pub Crawl V on the 22 May - 12 hours (sounds like an average game) on foot visiting the majority of the famous landmarks featured on the Monopoly Board as well as a few other important bonus spots. And of course consuming an alcoholic Drink (or soft drink) at each location. Oh. My. AAHHHH!!!! I hope to have a point & click pocketable digicam by then, since my choice of a dSLR has swayed once again.

Finish band The Rasmus have a good thing going. Dead Letters is suprisingly awesome.

A dead letter is a letter than has never been delivered because the person to whom it was written cannot be found, and it also cannot be returned to the person who wrote it