Got that travelin' bone again

Three weeks till the next holiday, and I am getting antsy already. On the one hand, most of my classes this fall actually seem better than most of the previous years. On the other hand I have never had so strong an urge to travel anywhere but work...

This October I shall first fly to Kiev by way of Copenhagen, then after a day in the Ukrainian capital, I shall fly on to Simferopol. I'm not sure where I'm going to stay yet while in Crimea. I have booked a room in a hotel in Yalta, but I might end up in a house further north. We'll see.

In Yalta I plan on seeing the house where the Yalta conference took place, and maybe some Greek ruins. In Sevastopol I want to see stuff connected with the Black Sea fleet and some battle sites from the Crimean War, including Balachlava. I also want to go north to the palace of the Khan - Crimea was controlled by descendants of Ghengis Khan until the late 1700s. Finally I am going to stuff face with local specialities and also hunt down some Georgian eateries. The Georgian kitchen is supposedly one of the best in the world, according to a friend of mine.

But most of all I am going to try and forget work and Norway for a little over a week. And not think about the fact that when this holiday is over, I've got more than two months till the next proper travel experience, which will be Naples. Sigh.