Making plans

I never imagined that I would ever say "I'm tired of planning", but that time has come folks. This entire week has been spent planning for a trip to Italy and Greece from Oct 3-12. And yes it sounds like a load of fun, but planning it has reduced my sleeping hours and studying hours drastically and because I feel like I'm spending too much money I get occasionaly pangs of guilt that don't go away until I est chocolate and let some guilt of a different kind take over instead. Then its not so bad.

Anyway it has taken so much effort to plan because we are on a budget and we want to see Milan, Cinque Terre a scenic collection of 5 towns south of Milan, Venice, Athens and Santorini the MUST SEE greek island.

It is a really hardcore trip, like Mel's and my whirlwind Scandinavia trip. There will be many nights on trains/planes/ferries and train stations. We'll prbably get to sleep on a bed like 4 times the whole trip.

And flights to and from Athens is the killer because everything else is really cheap 30-40 Euros, but getting to athens is costing us close to 200 Euros!! But its Greece, and getting there from Italy is cheaper than getting there form anywhere else so I might as well do it now.

My travel buddies for the whole trip will be Mel and Bryan but Dale and Song might skip Italy and join us in Greece. They better...planning this trip with all the connections and 4modes of transport involved blood, sweat and tears. Bryan was saying we should get credits for travel planning. Anyway Song told me he wa simpressed with my plan, and coming from someone who studies tourism or the like...I'm pleased.

So how much is my 10 day 5 city trip gonna set me back by? A grand total of SGD$1000. Cheap? Siao ah? Expensive? You tell me.