Why must museums close so early?

[guanin]

I'm going to Cardiff for two days, which I will mostly spend out of the city on tours that come back around 5:30. The Red Dragon Centre, where they have a Doctor Who exhibition, closes at 6:30 and it's at the very least a 20 minute walk from the tour's drop off point. At times like this I really wish I could run. I might beg the driver if it might be possible to leave me someplace closer so I can at least run around for half an hour. And that's if the tour gets back at 5:30 and not later. *mopes* I am such a geek.

Still thinking whether I should spend yet another $315 to go to Budapest for two days. I so don't have time for another trip, but no is when I know I can. It's not like I go off to other countries every other year and with the future job situation who knows how things will play out. I am so not telling dad how much money I'm spending here. No way. It's my money, anyway, but he gets this stern frown on his face when I steer away from financial sense. Then again, this is the man who spent $2,000 on a camera and didn't want to admit it.

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[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Hee. Your icon makes me think of Peter having a very serious conversation with either a pigeon or a duck. (Sample conversation: "Stop eating people’s old French fries, pigeon. Have some self respect! Don’t you know you can fly?"). I should probably watch less 30 Rock.

Anyway! I do think you have a point about taking advantage of the chance to go to places like Budapest right now, but it always makes me feel so grim when people assume they'll never be able to travel again. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, in a lot of ways. So enjoy Cardiff and its early-closing museums, and Budapest and its city-splitting river and hilarious name (that may just be to me), but keep in mind places you'd like to see again, in the future. And don't rush too much in either place, because you never really enjoy things like that.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

*snort* Oh, Tracy and his craziness.

I'm going to Budapest, aren't I? Oh crap. That means I'm going to have to be in the library from morning to evening when I am in London, I only have very specific things to seek out now, I think. It shouldn't take that long. The thing is I have this huge desire to go to all these places now before my knees decide that they don't like me anymore (we have really bad knees in my family) and since I'm compulsive to begin with it leads to me spending huge amounts of money. And I'm not even going to Iceland, which has been at the top of my list for years. So the list of "to go" places is still humongous. And maybe I feel a little competitive with my nephew, who went for two months to Japan and China and even made it to Mongolia. I begged him to stuff me in the suitcase, but he didn't listen.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Hee. The weird thing is, I could almost hear Claude saying that to Peter. If he called him "pigeon" instead of "poodle", I suppose.

Woo! I have a shirt from Budapest but have never been. I haven't been any further east then Berlin, now that I think about it. But when you travel, all your pains and aches disappear! Okay maybe not. But really, what else is there that's worth spending money on? Food? Bah! Better to spend it on making good memories, right?

[guanin.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It would appropriate considering the flying.

I haven't been to continental Europe at all, which is very odd for someone who lives in the UK (some people have gotten a funny look on their face when I tell them before they remember where I'm from and that I've had zero time since I've been there). I mean, Londoners go to Paris fro the weekend as cheap, quick getaway. Paris! Puerto Ricans go to Florida. I am not, however, going to Paris, for which I'm sure I'm going to get lots of people asking me why I didn't go there.

That's what I'm thinking. But I am so going to need a 20 hour nap when I get back from all that.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

And I suppose Claude would say "chips" instead of fries. But otherwise...(Now I'm picturing Claude and Peter walking by invisibly as Tracy says that to the pigeon and Claude being like "See? Even that crazy man knows better than you.")

Well I've got you beat then ;) But I have never been to Puerto Rico. Or Florida. Paris is nice, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy it properly, and when I went, I unfortunately wasn't.

Oh, that's what youth is for, too. Sleeping and spending, while you don't have to worry about anyone else depending on you to be awake and/or solvent.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Yes. I call them chips now, too. I call everything chips. My brain is so confused I don't know what to do with myself anymore. *laughs* Oh that would be so perfect!

No Disney World, huh? That's Mecca for Puerto Ricans. It's almost obligatory to go there at least once in your life or you're "weird". And people don't just go once, either, but as many times as possible. I'd so much rather spend my money going anywhere else. What I've heard about Paris is that it's nice (except from one guy who says that London is so much better), but that the Parisians are insufferable. I don't feel like dealing with insufferable people right now, so eh. I do want to go to the museums, though.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Well, whatever kind they are, chips are delicious (except I guess cow chips), so it doesn't really matter. Hee. In my mind, that totally happened.

Nope, no Disney World. My cousins have been, and I feel it's a pretty big right of passage thing in Mexico too but...nope. I haven't been anywhere further west than Chicago either, come to think of it. And I've been to New Orleans, but nowhere else very far south.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

See, now I want chips. Either kind. We do have tortilla chips, but I probably shouldn't.

I haven't either. Airports don't count. Running from one terminal to the next at LAX does not mean I've been to California. We took a big road trip when I was little, but I don't even remember where we went. The road trip I do remember went from Chicago down to Atlanta. Other than that, I've just been to Wisconsin, New York, and MA (it's easier than spelling it out) in the States. Other than Orlando, that is.

[c-quinn.livejournal.com]

I am such a geek.

There is nothing wrong with that. Especially when one is in Cardiff. It's almost a rule.

I so envy you right now, being able to travel.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Can you believe that I almost didn't go to Cardiff? And the reason I decided to go wasn't even related to Doctor Who. It was to see the countryside. But then am like, wait a minute. I could go to that Stadium. And stand where the Tardis stood. Now I wish I were staying for a day longer, but there is this thesis thing I have to do, plus moving back. But I am so going into that exhibition even if it's only for 15 minutes.

I'm trying to squeeze so much in now because I don't know when I'll next have the chance what with the future undetermined job and all. But it sucks not being able to go anywhere. Before I got mom's insurance money, I couldn't really move around much, either.

[g0shawk.livejournal.com]

Wow, Cardiff! That is so awesome!! :D Hope you can squeeze as much fun as possible into that time!

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I'm only going to be there for two afternoons, really, but I'm walking around as much as possible.