Research! Research! Research!
I ' m getting mildly hysterical. I have approximately 6 weeks of work left and can barely control myself. We ' re getting close. The " saving " is coming along okay (marginally better than I had hoped – touch wood), the flat is rented (our stuff goes into storage tomorrow). At the risk of jinxing it, I don ' t think we can stop now. We ' re going to BA! It is still 8 weeks until we go, imagine what I ' ll be like in 8 weeks. Anyway, a major contributor to my heightened sense of excitement is the research I ' ve been doing. At the moment I ' m spending hours scouring the internet and reading the blogs to find out as much as I can about the city. The blogs vary in quality dramatically, but for all the frivolous and tired ones there are superb insightful and considered writers. I guess the mad exodus to BA from the states in the early 00 ' s and the relatively good connectivity of the city has helped create quite an active and verbal (they ...