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I have been quite unwell this week – curse you migraine. This means I have spent some time in bed or just lounging around with nothing to do but think about stuff and chat to my other half. As is usually the case when I am left to my own thoughts I started to daydream and come up with all kinds of plans for the future and one thing we know we would love to do is…retire to Florida…or at least live there at some point in our lives.

The next big travel adventure we want to take is a month long trip to Australia and that’s already planned for early 2012, so a trip to Florida will have to wait for at least another year or so.

I was just looking at Florida houses for sale online and although it’s a long time away yet it’s pretty interesting and enjoyable to look. It’s great to get an idea about what sort of properties are available, what price range we could realistically afford and which specific areas would suit our needs and desires the most. My parents are also considering moving to Florida in a few years time which is a big pull for me – we moved away from my home town when we first moved in together many years ago and I always said that one day I’d like to live close by them again. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of having your parents just a stone’s throw away – even as an adult every one likes to have their parents close by…just not too close hehe

Will it ever actually happen? Well who knows, I have a lot of things on my little list of things I’d like to do in my life and most of them involve visiting or living in some exotic place so if I want to get it all done I had better get moving

When I watch American TV shows the one thing that strikes me is the sheer size of the houses most people seem to live in, and I don’t just mean the fancy West Palm condos in Florida, the “Sunshine State”, that we see rich people living in on shows like ‘The Real Housewives’ and the like. When we meet new reality TV contestants and go for a look around their homes they all seem to live in these large houses with huge gardens and swimming pools.

Here in the UK the houses are generally much smaller and even a ‘typical’ house in America would be considered a large house here and a large American house would probably be considered a mansion. In fact here’s an interesting image that shows the difference in house sizes throughout the world. Interestingly Australian houses are not too far behind American ones, yet despite watching a lot of Australian TV shows as well I have never noticed the same thing when watching those.

I would love to live in Florida one day myself, it has long since been a dream and the fact that the west palm condos are so large and luxurious compared to what I am used to is certainly a large plus point.

I wish I could find a really good discount cruise. My fiance won’t travel on planes so boats are really the only way we can get abroad and looking out the window right now I would love nothing more because there’s nothing but snow snow snow as far as the eyes can see and there’s no sign of it stopping. The temp is set to drop really low tonight as well, as low as -10 even! Brr. Takes me somewhere warm.

I am going to York for the first time in a few weeks to do a little Christmas shopping and I can’t wait, I love taking photos and there are some beautiful sights to see in York. Hardly any metal buildings in sight, it’s all brick and stunning old architecture. I am most looking forward to seeing the castle on the hill and the cathedral

I am looking at Branson vacation packages online at the moment. I wish it were for me but alas no it is not, we’re not due another vacation for ages now sadly. I was looking on behalf of my parents who are planning a trip out there to visit friends over the Christmas period. I said I would help them find a good bargain

I think I am going to spend a few hours this evening looking for some good travel deals, I am craving a holiday like crazy at the moment. It’s a long time since we had a proper break, we have spent the odd night away in the last year but no more than that. I think the last proper holiday we had was in Wales in summer 2008.

I really need a holiday, it’s ages since I was able to just get away from it all. I’d miss my nightly installs of big brother of course but hey if I could spend my days lolling around the pool and getting fed up in top class restaurants I am sure I’d cope.

A friend just got back from stunning angel island and has been making me green with envy with her tales and showing off her photos – of which she took literally 100s.

She says she loved the the whole area and the placed she stayed at, The Lodge at Tiburon, was simply stunning. They offer all the amenities you’d expect from such an establishment like an outdoor heated pool and complimentary Internet as well as a fancy whirlpool and Poolside cabanas.

I definitely want to go

I was just looking through some slideshows of Wales, where I go on holiday each year. An offer came up on a bargain site I post on where you could get a free massive poster print and I was going to get one for our flat – however I took so long picking a picture that when I came to order it the offer had expired. Argh.

I just turned 30 last week and it got me thinking about all the things I want to do, all the things I said I would do before turning 30! I did a pretty good job of getting through my list but of course there is also plenty on it that I didn’t manage to get to. I always wanted to buy a used rv and head to Australia – one of my old school friends is currently doing just that in one of those fancy rv motorhomes and I am following their adventures on Facebook with much jealousy – wishing it were me.

That’s OK though because I still have the time to do all the things I have dreamed of doing, it just means I need to change my goals to doing them before I turn 40 instead and that gives me a whole new 10 years worth of action to play with – I may even add several new things to the list as well, just to keep me on my toes