Holiday
I am on leave for eight days next month, and I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do with it. This is an utter disaster.
I've been toying with the idea of visiting South Africa's observatory in Sutherland, some 350km inland from Cape Town. I've always wanted to go, ever since I learned of its existence. Problem is, it's in the middle of no-where, I don't know anyone in Cape Town, and I have eight days to kill.
Then I had the sudden fancy of going on a horse trek, another thing I've been wanting to do for a long time. Oh, how lovely would it be to ride through Botswana's Okavango Delta, watching herds of elephant or buffalo from the safety of a horse's back.
But it seems those kinds of holidays are reserved for the wealthy; even though I am "rich" compared to myself a year ago, the prices charged by the private horse trekkers are way out of my league. Thanks, JZ, for taking the Rand to a new low.
At this point I am open to suggestions. Whatever happens, I cannot sit around for a week doing nothing. Leave is so precious, it needs to be used to its fullest capacity.
Maybe I should go to Iceland or something...