Sleepy Decisions - girl

We've been chatting about various things we want to do and see recently but this morning we woke up and for some reason began to talk far more seriously. I'd imagine it has something to do with a couple of friends having booked a Cape Town to Cairo trip for early next year.

It was almost the same as our decision to get married - we were discussing trip ideas more and more seriously and then we stopped, looked at each other and one of us said, 'are we really doing this?' and that was it, we're doing it.

What is it? Well, nothing's set in stone but we plan to take three months to travel parts of northern India, trek in Nepal, hit Tibet, take the world's highest train from Lhasa to somewhere in China, hang out there for a bit before taking an organised tour to N Korea (Colin's recently got in to this idea) and a final stop in Japan. Cool huh?

I'm a bit concerned about N Korea but Col really wants to go and who am I to refuse him anything? As long as we're as ethical about our travelling as possible elsewhere then I'm happy - we've already talked about eco-travel and hooking up with local NGOs to learn about problems in the countries we're seeing.

Col's already been to India a couple of times and I've spent a summer in China but we're both happy to go again and I'm sure we'll see plenty of new things and share new experiences. Thank goodness we're both pretty laid back travellers since my parents would be devastated if we got a divorce!

Of course, the main things right now are: sorting out our flat and not letting this amazing trip overshadow trips to France, the Netherlands and Namibia this year.