Time to get the comb out - 33 days!

I think that the nervous shakes have started now...The time seems to be flying by and I have so much still to do. I can hardly stay in my trousers (or skirt)!

The other day I booked my flights to Sri Lanka. I'll be flying to Colombo on the 19th November, and flying back to Bangkok on the 18th December (arriving on the morning of the 19th) and then flying straight to Phuket, where Aku & Saara will pick me up from the airport. !!

These seems to be quite a few crazy Finns in Phuket at that time, which will be great. By that time I have been travelling by myself for 2 months so I'll most likely be rather eager for some familiar company.

Next week I have some more vaccinations to do and really have to start arranging where I'll leave my stuff when I am away. I decided not to leave everything to last minute but that is exactly where I am heading right now. Well, I work best under pressure. Or Do I?!  :)

Beware of the wild dogs...and scary doctors.

Yesterday I went to have my polio and tetanus injections done in the morning and in the early evening had an appointment with a doctor about what else there is left to inject.

I learnt that I would take a big risk, if I didn’t take rabies, as there is a bit of an epidemic in Bali. “But I won’t go stroking wild dogs or monkeys"…”but I won’t go and work with animals…"but the nurse said".."but but but…”. The doctor’s counter arguments were far too scary. There is an epidemic there. We have no real statistics of contaminations as the information travels slow. There is no cure unless you get the antidote. They've been running short on antidote in Bali. Am I being stupid to keep on going about the €400 it will cost me just for the rabies drugs to be circulating in my blood? Will I be scared every time a dog approaches me if I don’t choose to get the injections? Is this really silly? I find it very unfair and difficult to be made responsible of making these decisions by myself. Well, I suppose, when I think about it again, it is my life that I am pondering here… :)