My wallet suddenly feels much lighter...

Finally paid for my flight ticket on Monday - having had STA phoning me almost every day over the past couple of weeks. It's the biggest payment I've ever paid for anything - still in a bit of shock over how much poorer I am now. I'm now officially a penniless scabby Traveller. The good news (apart from the fact I'm now 100% definitely going - yay!) is that one of my nightmare journeys has been cut down. Instead of Ghana-Kenya-Dubai-Tehran in 36 hours the agent found flights for Ghana-Dubai-Tehran in about a day less! So of course I've updated the route map - click to enlarge.