It’s time to come clean. A couple of weeks ago I resigned from my job at the Health and Community Services Union to go on a massively underfunded trip through Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe before settling down in the UK for a year or two.

It’s a move that is exciting, terrifying and much anticipated. It hasn’t been easy keeping to from you all this time dear readers

I leave on December 20 with a one way ticket to Tanzania where my better half and I will be greeted in Stone Town, Tanzania by my family.

I’ll then travel with my partner and family through Tanzania and Kenya for 5 weeks before leaving my family and flying with my partner to Cairo to travel through the Middle East and Eastern Europe until the money runs out and we have to fly to the UK to work (Youth Mobility Visas pending mind you – fingers crossed).

The timing is right in so many senses. In a practical sense I turn 31 in a month’s time so that’s the cut off for access to a Youth Mobility Visa for me. But I’m also getting to a stage where I feel like it’s time for a new adventure and I’ve been aching to get back to Eastern Europe for 4 or 5 years now.

My professional focus also seems like it is shifting more an more. I’m really enjoying doing a bit of freelance web development work and I’m hopeful that I can get some work while I’m travelling to keep myself afloat a little longer. I’m also hopeful that I can make a living doing freelance work once I get to the UK.

But for now I’m packing up the house I have loved and lived in for the past 2 years before moving back in with my Mum for the last month before we fly out.

There’s so much I’m going to miss and I seem to have had some really fantastic times with friends lately which is making me realise just how much I’m going to miss everyone. It’s also going to be a fucking rad!

It is still 2 months away (almost to the day) and I’ll probably have reason to blog again before I leave but be prepared for this to turn into a travel blog. And if you need any website work done at the moment, I’d love to help you out because I could really do with a bit of pocket money.