I've booked an adventure. I will be travelling to Africa next February to fulfill a longtime desire to see elephants in the wild. So 2 days in Johannesburg, 10 days on an overland safari (mixture of camping and lodges) which takes me into the Okavango delta and 2 days in Victoria falls in a very nice hotel (recovering from the camping)
The overland safari is with a tour group of no more than 10 (strangers!) and the days either side are by myself.
A colleague at work commiserated that I didn't have anybody to go with!! I told him that I didn't want to go with anyone. This was my trip and I didn't want to take anyone else into account.
I can't wait. It has been officially named as the FFF holiday - Fifty, fabulous and F**k you holiday. Pushing myself out of my comfort zone (but in a safe way) but half the fun for me starts now with the research and watching documentaries. A good distraction.
Financially probably a really bad idea. I don't care. Much. It's just money that would otherwise be spent on a lawyer or on something boring for the house.
Speaking of Lawyers. Mine hasn't had any responses to letters / emails / phone calls since end of April.
I attended at a first mediation appointment yesterday (alone) but it took the mediator 5 minutes to determine that mediation wasn't likely to be the best or fairest way forward. So she signed the certificate for the judge to say that mediation wasn't appropriate. She made the point that we had made 8 months of requests for voluntary disclosure with non forthcoming so he wasn't likely to participate in a non-mandatory mediation process.
