My trip starts on the 3rd of July 2007, leaving Melbourne Airport for the Narita Airport in Japan. I'm spending two weeks in Japan just looking at the sites and living ina different environment. To think I'll be leaving a town of 5000 people and then staying in a "town" of three and a half million people. It's a little bit daunting I'll admit, but I'm staying with an exchange student friend, so it will all be OK.

 After the two weeks I will be flying from Tokyo to Helsinki, with a night stopover in Zurich in Switzerland. After staying in Finland for a week or so, I will make my way through Europe; going to Stockholm, Berlin, Munich, Venice, Rome, Milan, Bern, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Edinbourgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, London and everywhere inbetween. I'll hopefully get to be at things like Oktoberfest and the Edinbourgh Fringe.

Around late November, I'll head off from Europe to Canada where I'll land in Halifax in Nova Scotia. I have a working visa there that will (fingers crossed) allow me to stay there and work work for a year. I plan to trek right across Canada and back again, mostly basing myself in Toronto.

After the year of work, I will head to Mexico, and hopefully spend Christmas and New Years there. Around January 2009 I will slowly make my way back home (hopefully via Hawaii and New Zealand).

 See you all then!

Well, let's recap. I didn't do all the things I said I was going to do, Out of the list of places in Europe the only 2 I didn't vist were Bern and Milan, I stayed about 20 minutes outside of Bern and I went through Milan on the train, but not enough to actually qualify as visiting a place I don't think. So I did go to Oktoberfest, but completely missed the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

When I arrived in Canada I stayed with a friend (now girlfriend!) while I thought I might try and find some quick work while having fun in the snow. I didn't manage to find a job at all so I wasn't to keen on heading to Toronto were it would just be more difficult to find work, After the first 5 months of living in Canada, I finally got a job. Those 5 months had really cut into my budget, so travelling was made a little difficult. I now had to stay where I was and work up the money to get home.