A first post.

I have no idea why I am finding this post so hard, possibly because I have no idea who is going to read it and am worried that everything I write will just sound wanky and ridiculous. But since my motto for the year is "try something new" I'm just going to smash it out and I can always edit and delete it at a later date.

So, England, Ireland, and the USA. Thats the plan. So far I have booked my flight to London, arranged a friend to stay with (by arranged I mean that I've let her know when I'll be arriving) and thats kind of it. To be completely honest, I've been to London before and I didn't love it. It was a weird time in my life and while I went and saw most of the sights nothing really stuck with me as being amazing. I spent most of my time sitting in parks reading £2 Penguin Classics and eating alone. I have much higher hopes for this visit because I get to spend a week with Rald and will hopefully also get to see Sketch and as much as I love cool old shit, catching up with friends that I haven't seen in years is much more exciting.

With the Ireland portion of my trip, I guess that I've technically kind of looked at getting there via the train/ferry (£38, leaving a whole bunch of times that's something to worry about much later) which is a start. Plus I've paid to attend the Hens weekend in Athlone (which is definitely a place that I had heard of before ... yeah no) and RSVP'd to the wedding. Those are really the two most important parts of the organising of the trip so I'm basically prepared. I think I'll be splitting my time between Wicklow and Galway with actual plans to come together closer to the date. It's still over a month until I leave so theres plenty of time.

As for the USA, I am still in the process of getting all of that together. I scheduled my consulate visit today for the 23rd of October which feels like it's further away than it is. That'll be the moment of truth and decide whether I need to panic and come up with a back up plan or not. I'm feeling super positive about it all so lets just hope that that is a good sign.

I'm not 100% sure about the content that I'll be posting here, I guess it will become more clear as the trip gets closer and I have more exciting things to say than "haven't really planned much, she'll be right". I'm hoping to invest in a nice little camera so that I can take pretty pictures of all of the cool places I end up visiting, I should get on that. This entire blog will probably just end up being a way for me to keep track of things I should be doing.

God I hope this doesn't end up being the only thing I post.