Just what the world needs. Another blog...
At the moment, I am sitting in front of my laptop in my pyjamas listening to Ella Fitzgerald, drinking a gin and tonic. There is a fan involved - it's about 35 degrees. I am going to Vietnam in four days, where the temperature is significantly lower than 35 degrees.
I got out my (borrowed) pack today to try on, and the bloody thing is bigger than I am. It's navy blue and makes me look like a navy blue turtle. But it smells like travel and will hold enough worldly possessions to last me for the next six weeks. So far, my wordly possessions include: a travel towel; some travel shampoo and Dettol (thanks, Santa!); a copy of the Ulysses Challenge; Arlene Textaqueen's TextaPlanet Guide to Hanoi; some thermals (for Nepal); some non-thermals (for Vietnam and India); and a lolly-bag of prescription medicines my doctor prescribed for me.
I somehow plan to buy walking shoes, a few pairs of cotton throwawayable knickers and a couple of new bras before I leave. But even if I don't obtain these things I should be fine, because I have St Christopher looking over me (and occasionally down my top) and a leather-bound journal to scribble in. I have a best friend meeting me in Nepal, who will join in the blog-tastic madness and post her own thoughts and gripes and puns - my God, the puns - when she gets there. She has a digital camera, yay! So expect photos, or a long, involved post explaining the lack of photos, from about the 20th of January.
There will be frantic typing from the internet cafes of Ho Chi Minh City, Kathmandu and Pondicherry. There will (probably) be photos that Helen and I take of each other sleeping on the train. There will be naan-based puns. But mainly, we'll be posting the bread-and-butter stuff that we'd be writing in every email anyway, so that when you write us emails we can skip all the today I went to the market and it was very beautiful and now my feet hurt stuff that tends to take up so much room in travel emails. Also, people can ask questions or make funny/sarcastic/intelligent remarks and we can respond to them without having to type the same thing over and over.
I'm going to go now and tip a glass of ice-water down my spine. Thus endeth the inaugural posting in the blog of Helen and Jess.
I got out my (borrowed) pack today to try on, and the bloody thing is bigger than I am. It's navy blue and makes me look like a navy blue turtle. But it smells like travel and will hold enough worldly possessions to last me for the next six weeks. So far, my wordly possessions include: a travel towel; some travel shampoo and Dettol (thanks, Santa!); a copy of the Ulysses Challenge; Arlene Textaqueen's TextaPlanet Guide to Hanoi; some thermals (for Nepal); some non-thermals (for Vietnam and India); and a lolly-bag of prescription medicines my doctor prescribed for me.
I somehow plan to buy walking shoes, a few pairs of cotton throwawayable knickers and a couple of new bras before I leave. But even if I don't obtain these things I should be fine, because I have St Christopher looking over me (and occasionally down my top) and a leather-bound journal to scribble in. I have a best friend meeting me in Nepal, who will join in the blog-tastic madness and post her own thoughts and gripes and puns - my God, the puns - when she gets there. She has a digital camera, yay! So expect photos, or a long, involved post explaining the lack of photos, from about the 20th of January.
There will be frantic typing from the internet cafes of Ho Chi Minh City, Kathmandu and Pondicherry. There will (probably) be photos that Helen and I take of each other sleeping on the train. There will be naan-based puns. But mainly, we'll be posting the bread-and-butter stuff that we'd be writing in every email anyway, so that when you write us emails we can skip all the today I went to the market and it was very beautiful and now my feet hurt stuff that tends to take up so much room in travel emails. Also, people can ask questions or make funny/sarcastic/intelligent remarks and we can respond to them without having to type the same thing over and over.
I'm going to go now and tip a glass of ice-water down my spine. Thus endeth the inaugural posting in the blog of Helen and Jess.
posted by Jess at 12:54 AM
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