oh my goodness

[devi]

I am sitting in the North Terminal at Gatwick, waiting for the check-in desk to open. I am simultaneously a bit weepy, after listening to melancholy folk songs on the bus about leaving your lover behind to go a-wandering, and breathlessly excited the way I used to be on Christmas Eve as a kid.

It's been a hectic but brilliant week. Thank you to everyone who dined and partied with me for my birthday and who came to the exhibition launch. (Myself aside, it all looks fantastic, by the way. Go check it out if you have a chance.) But at last all the sorting has been done - or most of it - and I am off. I haven't slept properly and I'm knackered, but my god do I feel alive.

Typing furiously till the credit runs out: I'll get to Lima in something like 21 hours from now and collapse into the airport hotel, which is called the Manhattan Inn and looks tacky but reasonably undodgy. The next day I have a local flight to Pucallpa, up in the Andes, and some time I don't know what to do with before that because mum has made me promise not to go into Lima itself. She has a friend who lives there and says it's a crime-ridden hellhole. "They'll pull the earrings off your ears," she says. Hmm.

But I'd better check in. And find coffee. And carbs.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Great, great, great! Have a fantastic time!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Love the icon!

[lathany.livejournal.com]

:-)

Have a great adventure!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[caescarna.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a great time, I'm sure you'll return with some great stories to tell :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and I hope so. Hopefully only with Mild Peril :)

[parallelgirl.livejournal.com]

wow!!!! have such an amazing time! I'm so excited for you!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I hope to! Right now I´m having a somewhat annoying time, but nothing serious.

[mr_magicfingers]

Bon voyage lovely, I look forward to following your adventures online. Take care of yourself and hope to see you soon. x

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It looks like I might be posting much more often than I do when I´m at home...

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

Have a fantastic trip! (Forgot to tell you last week: I've finally persuaded You Know Who to reimburse you entirely for fringe expenses, so I hope that helps your travel fund.)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Wow, thanks. This the wine or other things as well? (Annoyingly, I seem to have lost the receipt for the cashboxes..) Kind of amazing you had to fight for that at all. I appreciate it.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

No worries - can't recall all the stuff but it's 76 quid. Which reminds me: could you maybe email me your bank details so I can transfer the cash? (My last action as treasurer, hooray!)