Ten Weeks from Next Tuesday (May 18, 2010)

I will be leaving for Newfoundland!!! I will meet up with Ivy in Toronto, and then we will fly into St. John's, Newfoundland!
And the miscellaneous details are falling into place...a rental car here(just booked the one I'll need for Spain; the Hertz price was about $300 less than AutoEurope), the odd hotel there (for those interim nights between swaps), checking out train schedules, etc. Where to stay in Italy from August 28-September 1st, when I leave for Sardinia? What tough decisions!!! WHAT FUN!!!
[And this is not to mention that I do need to think about my next trip, only in terms of scheduling, since I will only be home three months before I head off so as not to miss the New Zealand summer! So I have sent off some emails and made some calls to the Round the World websites to explore that! It is a bit premature to book those flights, since they all have some sort of time limits before you can book, and I don't know when I'll be coming home next spring yet!]
I've booked some more flights with RyanAir for the fall, although their system IS NOT too user-friendly. For example, after I had booked a flight from Alicante, Spain, to Venice, I got an error message saying there had been a problem with my reservation. I rebooked a flight, and went on about my business....Several days later I realized that I had not gotten a confirmation email. (I will HAVE to print out my own boarding pass or have to pay something like 40euro!) And I could not find my reservation in their system, so I booked another flight....(Heaven forbid I not catch up with Jane and Joan in Venice!)Hopefully RyanAir will credit me for one of these flights!:))
RyanAir is based in Dublin, so I am not too keen to call them! However, I did fax them a letter and am awaiting their response. Today their website said that they are about 25 days behind due to the problems caused by the Icelandic volcano....