Spontaneous is My Middle Name

Alright, so this is pretty random, but I am off to India! Yeah, didn't see that coming did you? Well neither did I. It turns out that I have a friend, Liz, who is travelling India right now. So my choice was either to stay in Warsaw for 3 weeks, spend some cash doing nothing, or go to India. I am now just waiting on my visa from the Indian embassy and I will leave for India sometime next week, hopefully Tuesday, or as late as Thursday. I am really exited to try a different culture. Europe is great, but variety will be nice. So its India until Dec. 23rd when I fly to Geneva to spend Christmas with some friends from Smugglers. Then on the 27th, I head down to spend my birthday and New Years with Dzido, Laura, Laura's man Tom, Louise, JP and my lovely mummy. I am very excited. It will be great to see everyone. So that takes us up to Jan 3rd or 4th, after that I am planless! But come on, experience says I will find something crazy to do.

The 5th of December will mark 6 months since I left Canada. It is stunning to look back on the old blog posts and think about what I have done in these 6 months. I have done things I never would have imagined, met people from around the world and visited some of the most beautiful places in the world. Here are just a few interesting numbers:

Countries: 10 (not including stop overs while traveling)
Cities spending at least one night: 22
Fractured Bones: 1
Flights: 8 (though 3 of those were getting to Warsaw)
Bulls I have Escaped from: 8
Pub Fires: 1
Blog Posts: 37
Number of Towls Lost:2
Scalp-sunburns: 1 (ouchie!)

Amazing times. I am not sure how much longer I will last on the road, but it has been a great adventure so far, which much more still to go.

I went back and posted some pictures from my northern excusion. But here are a few funny ones too:

This sign if EVERYWHERE in the baltics and each country has its own variation. I am not sure what I am not supposed to do. Dont have houses? drive cars? play soccer? I thought the purpose of signs was to be simple and easy to understand.

I have always taken it as a given that you are not allowed to steal purses, but apparently this particular area in Tallinn was a no purse stealing zone.

Does that look like me kissing a big toe? Well that is because it is. There was a statue in Tallinn that looked like someone lounging in a bath, with their head, arms and toes sticking out of the water, except it was on grass and looked really cool.

This is me kissing a cow head. I feel bad for the cow, I had reindeer stew on my breath.

Well that is the update. I will post again when I make it to India, so check back for some excitement. In the meantime I will be living it up in Warsaw with Dzido for a couple more days. Best wishes to all back home!