Looooong Christmas Vacation

Who am I to contradict my boss's orders? She told me to take a proper long (and well deserved) vacation in December and taking 1 week off in the beginning of the month, then go back and work for 2 weeks before taking a 2 week Christmas vacation wasn't good enough... "No, why don't you take all of December off and then go back in January with your new college on January 7th" I thought about it for about 10 seconds and said: "OK" So here I am at Frankfurt airport waiting for my connecting flight to Oslo. For the last 2 weeks I have had a really good friend visiting from home and we started my vacation last Friday with a trip around Lake Malawi for 5 days. We went to Cape Maclear where we stayed at Mgoza lodge (great huge double beds, would have slept fantastic if it hadn't been for all the dead banana flies on my face, pillow and in the bed). Then we drove north to Nkhata Bay where we for 3 nights stayed at a really cool place called Mayoka Village (for more than 1 night there, bring your own mattress, they're a hip killer, felt 65years old every morning). On the way south we stayed over at Senga Bay outside Salima where we stayed at Cool Runnings, a quiet relaxing spot where they have beautiful long sandy beaches. Great place, apart from all the ants... But hey, it's Malawi ;-D I left Blantyre at about 32-34C and going home to -1C... I want my winter coat!