May holiday booked!

Wheeee - I'm all excited cos I've finally sorted out my May holiday! I was going to go somewhere exotic, for the first time in aaaaages - to a whole 'nother country! And then my brother went and scuppered that by heading this way from Australia the week after I was supposed to be on holiday - brothers! But I can't miss seeing them, so I changed my holiday week so that it just squeezes in my birthday day and stretches to the week after instead, and I booked three days in the exotic wilds of... Manchester. *sighs* Not that it won't be nice to see it again (I lived there for... *counts*... about twelve years), but it's not quite Rome or Venice.

And then I had days at the start of my hol to fill in. So - the sensible thing to do was wend my way slowly up country, seeing places I'd not seen before. Except, much as I would like to someday, cos there are many places to see, that didn't grab me for now (and besides, most YHAs were booked up over the weekend I'd need). Then I thought - well, there's four or five days, I could catch a cheap flight from Bristol and go somewhere still... but I browsed, and nothing grabbed me about that either. What in the world did I want?

So I browsed ideas online and browsed ideas in my head, and it turns out that what I want, what did grab me as something I'd like to do for those five nights - is Wales! *vbg* And when I looked at the YHAs - availability! Wheeeee!

So I'm going to Wales for my May holiday. *g* Cardiff for two nights, then over to Newport (the one in Pembrokeshire) for a night, and up to Borth (Ceredigion) for a night, and then over to Ironbridge (okay, not Wales any more - Shropshire!) for a night, and then up to Manchester for three nights. So I am going to another country - hurrah! And there's going to be (I hope) Doctor Who and a waterfront and a castle, and general wanderings and explorings, and then beaches and the sea, and then I'm very tempted by an Arthurian Labyrinth that includes going underground in a boat, but that needs to be squeezed in with Blists Hill Victorian village thingie, and then my favourite Jodrell Bank on the way up to Manchester, so we'll see. I think it can be done, though... *g*

Yeay, holiday! Yeay, holiday in Wales! *g*

And... um... now I need to start work for the day... *wanders off to do*

(I continue to be amused by related entries - how long has it been since I used the holidaaaaaay tag!)