we're leavin on a jet plane .....

The boarding pass has been printed, the bags packed (for 3 weeks now), last minute shopping completed today, oh BTW the flight home has been changed, we will be home a little later than expected.

No body seems to care anyway, but we are homeless, Jo is jobless and I really couldn't care less for the next 10 weeks we will be treading ground we have only dreamed of covering up until now.

Our itinerary is as follows:
May 15 Lunch at Mum's Dinner at Dorothy.Dot's then off to the airport, depart Perth @ 11PM for Doha en-route to London, arriving Heathrow 12:00PM Thursday 16th
May 16 Overnight at Tim's place in Pearman St London
May 17 ditto
May 18 ditto
May 19 Fly to Dublin, take up residence in Daragh's apartment opposite St Patrick's Cathedral
May 20 check out Dublin town
May 21 Drive to Galway, stay with Par and Pam
May 22 Checking out Galway and the surrounding coastal areas
May 23 Drive to Dingle to stay on a sheep farm with Sheamus, first place I saw and fell in love with
May 24 will be spent at Murphy's Bar Dingle where we will drink copious amounts of the good stuff
May 25 will be sad to leave Sheamus and his woolly friends, but County Cork here we come, catching up with Granny Daneka in Cork, staying with Glenderline
May 26 Cork COrk CORK
May 27 More of Cork, we might have to pop a few corks!
May 28 Bring on Kilkenny, Jo is excited for Kilkenny as we are staying at the Butlers quarters of Kilkenny Castle, my Great Grand Dad came for Kilkenny, he founded Murphy's brewery makers of fine stout.
May 29 drinking the odd Murphy's stout and a few Kilkenny beers to boot
May 30 suffering suffertash still in Kilkenny, how much more of this can I take?
May 31 drive back to Dublin to catch a plane to Paris via Copenhagen  we will be in Paris tonight on the banks of the Seine  <Censored>
June 1 Paris <Censored>
June 2 Paris <Censored>
June 3 Paris <Censored>
June 5 Time to leave Paris, catching train to Milano, Italy here we come
June 6 discovering Milano, maybe a visit to the Last Supper
June 7 Train to Lake Como, look out for George
June 8 Spent by the lake, drinking vino, eating home made pasta, making love under the vines
June 9 Off to Venice
June 10 getting lost in Venice
June 11 Pack up we are off to Florence, have an 800 year old apartment booked, hope the plumbing has been looked at recently, think this might be the only place we stay at that does not have stairs, already liking this place don't get on too good with stairs!
June 12 to 15 so much to do, so much to discover, think I am going to like Florence
June 16 All aboard the Amalfi express, shacked up at a not too shabby hotel with glorious views of the ocean, we will be here for a few days, have a cooking lesson booked with Mama Agata tomorrow
June 17 Mama Agata's kitchen, mmmmmm can't wait for this one!
June 18 to 20 relaxing along the Amalfi
June 21 Off to Calabria, staying a BnB on the beach in a little fishing village can't remember what the place is called but it is pronounced as Sheila
June 22 and 23 checking out the toe of the boot, maybe meeting some distant relly's
June 24 to 27 take a boat to Sicily, we will be here for a few nights in an apartment right on the beach
June 28 flying to Rome for a 6 night stay, much to do, much to see
July 4 time to depart Italia, will be a sad day, but an exciting one too we are off to Spain or maybe Portugal first then Spain via Morocco, all we know is we must be in Barcelona on the morning of July 23 to catch a ride home to Perth.
July 24 we are home arriving Perth Airport around 1PM

Wow looking at that schedule we have a bit planned, it is going to be awesome, all I need to do now is get to bed and hopefully get some sleep, excitement is kicking in though so there may not be a lot of that.

.... So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh baby, I hate to go 

BULLSHIT!