Well, things are well and truly underway for the Summer Project - blogging my Gap Year diaries as I travelled around Europe in 1999.
Let me just say; this isn't really going to be blogging. I'm blogging it, but the diaries were just that; diaries...and the entries aren't long to begin with. Each day's entry will be blogged on the day it was written five years ago, with more detail and recount written now. That may sound tedious, but I'll say now that I've tried not to make it that way. This isn't going to be like me pinning you all down and forcing you to watch slides.
Anyway.
Let me give you a little spoiler.
There are two photographs that I want to incorporate into the design of the new page.
And they're blurry and dark, respectively, so on any kind of scale for photographic excellence they would rate very low indeed, but for me they are something more than photographs anyway.
If you're on dial-up or have all the patience of a High Court Judge who really needs the toilet, then don't click to continue reading.
Here are the pictures.
This picture was taken out the back of a train, just after sunrise, at the end of a long overnight journey from Nice to Paris. We weren't taking the fast TGVs, so this little train was just carriages, and the last carriage of the train had a window...we were rattling into the outskirts of Paris in golden light.
This picture was taken by Gemma, my travelling partner, as the sun set over the Aegean, North of Crete. This was the first time we had turned towards home for three months, and our leaving Iraklion coincided with that of a ship packed with drafted Greek army recruits; it was quite a send off.
i can't wait.