Going to Cardiff

[silver_sun]

I know it's only Monday but i'm really looking forward to the weekend already - and it's not because of the suckiness of work for a change, it's because I actually have plans for this weekend :D
I've probably bored everybody with this before, but for all those that haven't heard, I'm going to Cardiff on Friday to meet up with a load of Torchwood and Doctor Who fans.  I'll probably take loads of photo and put them on photobucket if anybody is remotely interest.

As silly as it sounds I'm even looking forward to the eight and a half hour coach journey - yes i'm probably mad, but i've always liked travelling places, walking, car, coach, train, plane it doesn't really matter, it just like it.

I think it's the anonymity of it, the feeling of being free of the expectations of the people around you as they have none, because they don't know who you are. 

I've done nearly all of my travelling on my own, both out of choice and necessity and I still get told by friends and family that I shouldn't travel places by myself, that it would be ok for me to do so if I was a man, but a woman travel on her own - unthinkable - they are so old fashioned sometimes. 

Part of the problem I think is the media vastly over plays the dangers of life today and I for one refuse to limit what I do and where I go based on hype, especially hype that claims just about everything from eating chocolate to catching a bus in inherantly more dangerous for a woman to do than a man - it's just plain stupid.

I after a reenactment when some idiot snatched my freinds hat and run off with it chased him and got it back - what do I get told? I should have let one of the men do it.
Or those that wonder why I didn't get a new car after somebody broke into it? A I can't afford to (it only needed a new door after all) and B it's not like I was in it at the time - ok it was parked outside my house.

Should this sort of stuff bother me? I don't know, I'm just glad it doesn't.