Kyoto Life

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

Or, as my Mum says, "everything in moderation!" has become my motto (with the occasional chocolate and wine binge...) Not as fun as the first quote, but I do feel good and healthy. I could never live the first motto (despite how much fun it sounds), cos I'd always be worrying about becoming obese and lethargic and getting health-problems and various diseases.

As most of you know, Michael and I are planning a trip to Europe for our honeymoon.  We have finally got the plans sorted and went to buy our tickets online last night!! However, it was a bit of an anti-climax, as I pushed the 'enter' button for all the money to drain out of my credit card, and to confirm the tickets, and turns out I didn't have enough money on my credit card!! haha. Well, everything sorted now. We'll confirm the payment tonight or tomorrow.

This is the big (40 day!!) plan. Fly from Christchurch to Athens, stay in Athens 4 nights, then off to the island of Sifnos for another 4 nights. Back to Athens, fly to Frankfurt, Germany to pick up our campervan!! Drive from Frankfurt to Munich for lots of expensive beer drinking at the Oktoberfest. Then (a day or two later when we've recovered from the Oktoberfest) drive into Italy (through Austria) and visit Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Siena, Pisa, and the Cinque Terre towns. Then drive into France, and sample the bread, cheese and wine in various small towns in Provence. From Provence, we'll drive to Barcelona and spend a good amount of time there soaking up the athmosphere and Gaudi creations. Then from Barcelona, we'll plan a route back up to Frankfurt to give back the campervan (hopefully without a scratch on it!!). 

Thank you Japan for having compulsary Pension Savings!!