Having over a year to plan this next trip has caused a certain degree of elaboration. It is still three months away, time can go slowly. BC Archaeology is providing the central three weeks of Libya and Tunisia, Roman North Africa is the tour label. Robyn, a friend from uni who I travelled to Rome with, could also make it although she does have to get back before I do. The tour is one week of the school hols and two weeks after. She suggested, its all her fault naturally, that we make good use of the first week and after multo consultations we settled on Istanbul. Malta was on the cards but vagaries of airtravel timetables would have given us just 4 days there. Not quite enough. As it is we will have 6 nights in Constantinopal. There is a mass of stuff to see but I think we can get a good coverage in that time without killing ourselves before the tour. After we finish in Tunisia the tour returns to Australia from Rome which made it easy to extend and stay on for a bit. I will miss three weeks of school but as YR 12 will have finished that does not cause too much of a problem. I probably would not have considered the last week if I had known I would pick up the job at Marist but they were a bit desperate to find someone to fit in with their timetable and accepted me despite the missing three weeks.