Got Green? blog o'Hop 2.0 - I'm just in time!

It's 11:41pm here in Western Australia, so I'm just in time to participate in Mark Koopmans's fun Oirish-themed blog (o')hop mach ii.

First off, I'll link back to last year's entry, where I talked about how I'd never visited Ireland before but would soon be in that very country. I later followed up with a description of what Ireland was like in comparison to what I'd expected (at Mark's suggestion). Turns out I actually had visited Ireland prior to 2012, back in 1980 as a ten-week-old baby. But I have much clearer memories of 2012's visit. hehe. My mum did tell me that I fell off a table somewhere at ten weeks old, though. No wonder I turned out so weird!

Now I have ten minutes of March 15th left, so I better get on with today's entry! I wanted to mention that in Australia, St Paddy's Day is a fairly huge deal. We throw big parties over here and there is a lot of drinking and obnoxious behaviour (so very Aussie of us). Australia also has a big Irish population, with more and more immigrating every year. So those guys are out in full force on their national day. So, yeah, it's a big party night here...which may explain why I'll be happy as a pig in mud on Sunday night, at home alone. :)

Happy St Paddy's Day for Sunday everyone!! And now that there are nine minutes left of March 15th, I'm off to brush my teeth and get some sleep!

"I barfly knew what I was doing"... and my tour of the UK

The quote above is not actually a sentence from one of my stories, but it does show an example of a typo that I make quite regularly while typing. Instead of typing 'barely', I will type 'barfly'! It doesn't happen every time, but it definitely happens often enough to warrant a mention! There are a lot of barflies in my stories, apparently.

Makes sense, as I'm a bit of a lush myself. haha

Seriously, now - what typos do you make most often?

In other news, below is the map of the UK tour we are doing:

(source)

I confess I'm not much of a tour person - in fact, this will be my first time going on a major tour while travelling. I've done the minor kind - like a walking tour of Prague, some organised trips to distant places in Turkey (after which you could wander about the sites at will)...oh, and I did a pirate tour in Bristol too! The friend I was with has always claimed that the pirate dude was a bit tipsy. The point I'm making here is that this trip's tour will be a very different beast.

There are a lot of stops to be excited about, of course. But the ones I can't get out of my head are the pass through the Lake District, and the visit to Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest. hehe. (I'm hoping to see at least some men in tights!) I'm also fascinated by Culloden (hello Jamie Fraser!) and Inverness. But that's just for a start.

Anyway, I'll end this post here, because I'll be talking a bit more about my upcoming travels in Mark Koopmans's "Got Green?" blog hop on Saturday. Check out Mark's blog if you don't know what I'm on about. And in the meantime, tell me this:

What travels have you done;

will you be doing in future;

do you want to do someday?