You've made important decisions for me before, flist...
...I'm now going to (sort of) let you decide my next travel adventure.
I'm getting itchy with excitement about the Poland (& Czech Republic) trip (OMG, ten days!), but the hobo demon inside me is already planning my Birthday Adventure. I've literally spent the whole day planning and scheming, but I'm still left with two itineraries, both wtih pros and cons.
In the red corner we have Cape Verde. Huh? EXACTLY. That's the kind of travel I want to do. I'd fly to Spain first, either Barcelona or Valencia, so I'd need a couple of days for those cities and onto Lisbon from there. I've always wanted to go to Portugal so it's just as well that TAP Portugal is one of the few airlines with regular flights to Cape Verde, the tiny islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Senegal. It's remote, it's beautiful, it's confusing and I don't know if I can island hop enough in one week, but I'd sure like to try.
In the blue corner, we have... well... Malta as the end destination, but I'd fly to Venice first, explore Italy on my way to Rome, fly to Malta and back and then if I can abstain from also going to Croatia and Bosnia from there, go back home I guess. I don't like this version because those countries need a lot more time than I can give them this spring, but it's the less expensive, safer (as in, I can always hop on the next plane cause I'm not in the middle of nowhere) destination. Plus... you know... Malta! And Venice.
Pick an island for me, flist!