Happy Friday

Its payday Friday!

Is there any better day on the month??
(well, maybe payday Saturday)

I went to Itchy feet today, which is their official last day of being open.
It was a little disappointing, because the stuff wasn't as 'bargain-bin' as id hoped.
and i didnt see any of the stuff I was spying on their website

There was lots of jackets and backpacks on sale, but for only around 10% off and Ive not really decided what I need yet anyway.
I ended up only buying map of Indonesia that was 25% off.
It looked a little like this...




It got me a excited about travelling,
and excited about buying all those bits, like walking boots and stuff :)

Anyway,
I'm so glad it's the weekend, we are going to Woburn (!) so although its not as exotic as the places I normally chat about on here, Ill write how it was when i get back...
We come back Monday, so I have the day off...yay!

Itchy feet

Just walked past Itchy Feet in Wardour St, and its covered in closing down sale signs...

Im really sad it's going, because it's cool to have a travel shop so close...

But also pretty excited about dipping in there and rumaging for some bargins

The last day is Friday the 31st...Payday!

So I'll just sneak a look in when I get paid before it closes...

Here are a few items I've got my eye on...

streetview continued...

ok, this is getting addictive...

hong kong streetview

As ive mentioned before I totally heart streetview,

Check out what I just stumbled across...

where to begin?

So,

time for a bit of positivity!!!

Looking at flights made me feel a bit better (even if they are SUPER more expensive that I originally thought)

I've discovered that actually Chengdu is pretty expensive to fly into (doh)

so I think it might be better/easier/cheaper to fly in to HONG KONG!

The route Ive looked at will probably still work but just in a slightly different order.

and since we might be going in March now (ugh) it might work out well that we avoid the coldest bits at the coldest time.

Live in the now

Y'know, I really struggle with time.

Like, im late everywhere, and I cant judge how long things will take and at work I always wait till the last second of the deadline to do anything.
I think that maybe I just live in the now. This second, now.

I find it hard to look in to the future, and really see it as something real that is actually gonna happen, I think it means that im not great about thinking about the consequences of stuff I do.
I often say 'oh, Ill do it tomorrow' but I dont ever see tomorrow as something thats gonna ever come...

Me and JW talked about dates and stuff the other night...
and we started thinking that maybe we should leave more like March than December.
I was thinking, well whats 3 more months? Will it really be that hard?

To be honest I sometimes feel like I cant imagine it ever happening, that Ill just spend the next few years talking about it and pushing the dates back forever.

more stuff

Its been another hard old week.

With my sister coming back, it really dredged up all that desire to go travelling,
hearing her and her boyfriend talk about the amazing places, people and things they have seen made me go green with envy (not a good colour on me as Ive said before)

Me and JW had a number of big arguments after,
mainly about the frustration of being in my parents house, without our own space and privacy and hating work and want to just leave and go travelling

Its so difficult... because we made the decision to go to my parents so that we could even begin to think about having enough money travelling,
But it feels like we've been here forever,

And as cool as my parents are, JW still feels he cant completely relax (which I understand, but sometimes it frustrates and upsets me that he doesn't feel comfortable around my family)

Anyway we made up :)
And we agreed that we have to stick it out, and we had another good chat about the future.

stuff...

Im really struggling this week,
Work is shitty, and I really just want to leave now.
It's so hard waiting, I wish we could have JWs passport already, and enough money.

My sister comes back from travelling in South America next weekend,
so it got me thinking, what happens when you come back?
I think I'm kind of hoping that travelling will improve myu life, and make me happier- because I'm not happy in my situation now.

JW and I talked a lot last night about the future, and what we are doing after travelling,
we both agreed we wanted to spend some time in Cape Town, a few months or so,
and we both said that we dont want to come back and live in the UK- and we might try living somewhere in Europe, like Italy?

To be honest, I would be happy to keep travelling forever,
To just come home, save up some money and go again,