You're probably getting bored of these topics now, as Max and Tom and other people have already stolen my thunder by leaving before me, but:
I'm going away for a week. I leave on Friday 26th, which is (technically speaking) tomorrow. Me and 11 of my friends have rented a cottage in Brittany (France), and we'll be staying there. It'll be great fun, hopefully. They all went to France last year, but I couldn't go because I couldn't afford it. This year I'm not going to miss it.
The only problem I can see is that the French are a bit funny about vegetarians, IE they don't like us. So I may well end up living on bread and cheese. On the other hand, bread and cheese are what France does best (apart from Wine, of course, which I will also be consuming large quantities of), so that shouldn't be too difficult...
So, see you on the 5th (or 6th, 7th, or whenever I first get online). Don't do anything too exciting without me...
On second thoughts, I'm going to have more fun than you next week anyway, so do what you like.
TTFN