....and its real

Suddenly all that anxiety I had about moving from a vague plan to do something useful in my two months has finally germinated into a fully fledged and booked trip. Now all I have to worry about is surviving for ten weeks away from the bright lights and easy living of London.  It’s going to be a wonderful chance to see good friends, relatives and a wee bit of an adventure as well. It’s been quite some time since I’ve been away for so long and perhaps I’m a little rusty.  I’ve got my hands on the Abbey Zero credit card which you can use abroad without charges and my insurance. I’m getting there but any more suggestions on a postcard please.

I finish my job at the end of September and leave the Thursday after for Singapore hopefully to see a couple of friends. I may well do some camera shopping there as I’m in the market for a new good compact. The upcoming Canon G11 and S90 have caught my eye. Both are built very well with high quality physically large sensors. The G11 has a very handy articulated screen and easier manual settings while the S90 is more pocketable and has a very high quality f2.0 lens making image sharpness on a par with an SLR. They both retail about £350 in Singapore. Whatever happens I’ll still have the Sony SLR with the ranged and portrait lens.

After Singapore I’m off to Melbourne to visit a couple of friends and relatives. On to Sydney for a 14 day tour up to Cairns hopefully catching the Great Barrier Reef, then to New Zealand for a similar 10 day tour.  Next stop San Francisco for 5 days where I’ve been told I’ll be climbing mountains very soon after a 15 hour flight...fun.  Ken in the British Virgin Islands’ next where I’ve challenged him to show me why fishing is such an addictive sport though I think there may be some bias as I’ll be doing in the Caribbean. Finally I’m off for a cruise around the Galapagos vir Thanksgiving in Miami. At long last I get to go home in mid December.

This is my first posting on my first ever blog and hopefully it will serve as a diary for me and good reading for anyone that wants to look. Recent photos should be displayed and any updates should show up on fb and twitter (samirshah). There’s even a little widget that should say where in the world I am.