News just in: now in the really important, ground-breaking news of world significance, I’m going away on holidays! I’m so excited (just can’t hide it, about to lose control and I think I like it) so I’ll post my March-April “to do” list online.

First, Switzerland. This isn’t so great as it isn’t exactly independent travel (rather, I’m going away skiing with the family I’m au-pairing for) but at least it’s subsidised! (Insert wicked self-interested laugh here).

I’ll be back in Paris for less time than it takes to nurse a hangover (not that that activity is on my itinerary, I was being figurative with time expressions), and then off to Lisbon for the weekend. I’m not such a jetsetter, it’s just that Guillaume’s sister is living there at the moment, and directly after the Switzerland trip is the only time I can take off work. I’m looking forward to it because I’ve never been to Portugal before (which shares a spot on the “Never been to in Europe” list with Iceland, Norway, Cyprus, Albania, Macedonia, Belarus, Moldova and the Ukraine).

During the school holidays in April, I’m going to Seville and Grenada. It will also be my first time in Andalusia, so I’ve been doing some research. Well… I’ve just been checking out a heap of other blogs about living in Spain.

My favourite is www.morethansunandpaella.com by a lass named Naranja, especially when she manages to snap choice photos like this frog roadkill shot. Not that I’m harbouring any anti-frog tendencies by including it in my blog but it makes me wonder… Do you think that it means that foul play is suspected? Perhaps the cause of death of the frog will be released after a police investigation? Who knows?