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Don't you hate it when ridiculously lucky and privileged people bitch about their perfect lives? It pisses me off. So indulge me while I do the same thing, painfully aware of just how ridiculously lucky I really am.
I'm headed off to Zambia for two weeks in June - work trip. As I will be there for 2 weeks, I will have weekends in Zambia, two of them, in fact. And a trip to Victoria Falls. I am then thinking of taking 2 weeks of holiday. And do I know what to do with those 2 weeks? Do I, buggery. The very idea is giving me heartburn.
1. The initial thought was a week's safari in Zambia, followed by a week's lazing about on a beach in Zanzibar. This was nixed, as it would involve me flying 4 days out of my 14 days of holiday. Flying is a necessary evil for me, so I'm keen to reduce my time spent in the air. Also, it turns out that half the office will be in Zanzibar at the same time, and it's a small island. Anyway.
2. STA travel is doing a 9 day trek from Zambia through Namibia, Botswana and South Africa for a very reasonable, all-inclusive £500. A veritable snip. But it does, of course, involve trekking. And, er, camping. I thought I'd been camping when I went on safari in Burkina, but it turned out I'd been staying at a mid-range hotel. OK, then. Also, I had to have someone come to take the cockroach away because it upset me, and I couldn't cope with the heat and had to sit in air-conditioned bliss for hours at a time to recover. So I'm thinking I'm maybe not the camping - or trekking - type.
3. There is an option to say 'sod it' and fly back into London, then go spend two weeks in Europe. Visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monanotlisa and selenak in Germany, swing through Austria, crash with a friend in the Czech Republic, the works. Yeah-no. Have you seen the Euro against sterling? It would cost a fortune. Weekend, yes, two weeks, no.
4. There is the option of ... doing something else. I am at a loss as to what this would be. Ideally, I'd like something that I can only really do in Zambia (or at least that part of Africa), followed by dedicated relaxing time. HELP. I've never really had the chance to have a proper holiday (the last time I took a two-week holiday was just before I went to uni, and I went to Bulgaria to visit my grandparents and my aunt and cousins and every single of my parents' friends, it felt like.). So I don't really have a lot of experience of being at a loose end, and I don't want to go crazy from boredom. But I think that a 'roughing it' safari is possibly not for me. That said, 2 weeks of a lodge safari would bankrupt me, as I am bankrolling this through the magic of credit cards and the rationale that as I'm going to be in Zambia anyway, it would be a shame if I didn't do X Y Z.
Anyone have any idea? *plaintive look* I'm all up for having the time of my life... now if only I knew how to get it!!
I'm headed off to Zambia for two weeks in June - work trip. As I will be there for 2 weeks, I will have weekends in Zambia, two of them, in fact. And a trip to Victoria Falls. I am then thinking of taking 2 weeks of holiday. And do I know what to do with those 2 weeks? Do I, buggery. The very idea is giving me heartburn.
1. The initial thought was a week's safari in Zambia, followed by a week's lazing about on a beach in Zanzibar. This was nixed, as it would involve me flying 4 days out of my 14 days of holiday. Flying is a necessary evil for me, so I'm keen to reduce my time spent in the air. Also, it turns out that half the office will be in Zanzibar at the same time, and it's a small island. Anyway.
2. STA travel is doing a 9 day trek from Zambia through Namibia, Botswana and South Africa for a very reasonable, all-inclusive £500. A veritable snip. But it does, of course, involve trekking. And, er, camping. I thought I'd been camping when I went on safari in Burkina, but it turned out I'd been staying at a mid-range hotel. OK, then. Also, I had to have someone come to take the cockroach away because it upset me, and I couldn't cope with the heat and had to sit in air-conditioned bliss for hours at a time to recover. So I'm thinking I'm maybe not the camping - or trekking - type.
3. There is an option to say 'sod it' and fly back into London, then go spend two weeks in Europe. Visit
monanotlisa and selenak in Germany, swing through Austria, crash with a friend in the Czech Republic, the works. Yeah-no. Have you seen the Euro against sterling? It would cost a fortune. Weekend, yes, two weeks, no.4. There is the option of ... doing something else. I am at a loss as to what this would be. Ideally, I'd like something that I can only really do in Zambia (or at least that part of Africa), followed by dedicated relaxing time. HELP. I've never really had the chance to have a proper holiday (the last time I took a two-week holiday was just before I went to uni, and I went to Bulgaria to visit my grandparents and my aunt and cousins and every single of my parents' friends, it felt like.). So I don't really have a lot of experience of being at a loose end, and I don't want to go crazy from boredom. But I think that a 'roughing it' safari is possibly not for me. That said, 2 weeks of a lodge safari would bankrupt me, as I am bankrolling this through the magic of credit cards and the rationale that as I'm going to be in Zambia anyway, it would be a shame if I didn't do X Y Z.
Anyone have any idea? *plaintive look* I'm all up for having the time of my life... now if only I knew how to get it!!