So many things to do, so little time.

A cliché, but true if I want to take a few days off after Easter with this huge 'Visions' project going on.

On top of everything at work, I really would like to finish reading the guidebook before I set off to Syria.

Guidebooks are good to get to grips with the basics. Money. Transport. People. Customs - in both senses of the word. Essential knowledge when travelling to somewhere like Syria.

But - thanks to the time-honoured tradition of 'sod's law' - if I buy a guidebook before I set foot in the airport, I am unlikely to make it to that destination.

Boston, Hawaii and Oslo are some of the unvisited places insulating my toilet. Easter Island and Fiji are in the hall.