Today is a milestone day - and I'm not referring to the anniversary of Michael Jackson's death - it is 50 days until we go on our cruise around the Med. Marking 50 days could well turn into a bit of a blog tradition, although having said that I seemed to miss it for California, but did at least get it for our last Florida trip, as in this post.
Our ports of call are a little different from when we went on a similar cruise on Legend in 2006, but to be honest, I wouldn't mind if we went to all the same places again. I'm definitely looking forward to going back to Rome.
Today was a slow journey to work - apparently due to cattle on the M25 (!), so as I was sat going nowhere on the M26 I had a quick look at twitter and noticed a tweet from AllEars about a new residential development at WDW called Golden Oak. It brings to mind the excitement around the initial development of Celebration, but it looks like Disney have decided to tweak the model somewhat compared to what they did then.
Back when Celebration was first announced it was all about building a community, and I think that even for the folks at Disney they've found that to be a rather challenging enterprise. So, with Golden Oak it looks like they've decided to go with a more "resort living" approach rather than a community development project. So, a small number of houses plus a hotel and clubhouse facilities, tucked away in a gated community, and no mention of schools, hospitals, community centres and so on.
Oh yes - one other thing - the price: ranging from $1.5million to $8million.
Might need to have a whip round!