Six Weeks in BA

It's Friday afternoon (now evening) and the ritual is to open a bottle of wine, have some cheese and talk about the past weeks accomplishments and the coming weeks expectations. Ah, just kidding - that was when both of us were doing the gold 'ol nine-2-five.

Tonight we've been planning our next vacation. We went through the possible dream destinations - Cape Town, Mumbai, Tokyo, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Havana, Paris, Saigon - and realized that only BA had the right weather (i.e. no thunderstorms), the right price and being off-season. Possible Santiago as well eventhough the average temperature is on the low side.

Once that was sorted we (i.e. I) started to look for good flight deals. I had imagined that during the official off-season BA flights would be inexpensive but they are not. I guess the airlines are getting smarter with adapting supply to demand.

So what do one do for six weeks in BA? Well, for starters eat. The cuisine is brilliant and fairly inexpensive. Then you have all the museums and exhibitions. But don't forget that it's officially winter season and all the mounatains have excellent skiing. In that context, six weeks is but a breeze.