This is how things stand with me as of this moment: I have applied for one job (well, apply is too strong a word. Lets just say I may have a job soon.) I may start next week - I'll find out tomorrow evening.

Fiscally speaking I have enough money to see me through a few more weekends like the one I just spent in Germany, but I will have to lay down some cash for the house pretty soon so that will dry up very quickly.

At this moment I sit in a dark loungeroom at 2am, about to play a computer game before my eyelids fail me. I am essentially trying to take it easy after the last few weeks, and before I potentially start work. But this doesn't signal the end of my holidaying, as evidenced by:

... my travel plans! October will find me (for a long weekend at least) in Spain with Mostyn, Melle and 8 other good souls, including Shaun. Barcelona in particular. Thanks to the magic of Melle our flights and accommodation are already booked and I need not put further thought into the whole affair until I'm sitting with a sangria in hand trying to decide between paella and tapas.

November will see the arrival of Kris, with whom I plan on jumping across to Italy. Probably on his first weekend here, as my other brother Matty arrives in London soon after. Since I've been to Rome I'm thinking perhaps Florence or something, but such concerns will have to wait till Kris has had his input...

Then, December. I plan on spending Christmas with the crew here in Wales, soaking up the snow from some kind of spa-ridden resort hosted by some kind of Michelin-star chef, who will incidentally also be picking us up from London. I believe this has also already been paid for, but I may be wrong there. In any case, I'm looking at it as locked in. New Years is still unspoken-for.

I plan on staying at this house for the forseeable future - anyone who wants to visit or travel somewhere in Europe with me only need ask, and I'll do my utmost to make a party of it.

And this web site now contains a full selection of my Japan (I added four new sub-albums: return to Tokyo from Kyoto, Gunma, Kusatsu and back to Tokyo a third time) and Germany photos, though I have not yet added witty little comments to the German ones. I still want to transcribe my Japan travel diary (well, it was really a 'Hello Kitty' notepad) here for my own personal satisfaction.