Tiring of living at Ellingham Hall, a grace and favour mansion in Norfolk, Julian Assange has decided that he would prefer a nice long holiday in Ecuador instead. I can understand the attractions of the country, after all it is home to some of the Andean Condors, a distant relative of our own dear Lammergeiers.
This change of scene however; has left some of his celebrity chums in the lurch, as they will now be expected to pay the £200,000 cost of his stay here.
Spoilt for choice, he has apparently turned down the opportunity for a holiday in Sweden, worried that it might as these things do, get out of hand and end up finding himself stuck in America, a country that he has said on numerous occasions that he does not want to visit.
Australians are very often noted for their unorthodox methods of travelling the world and Mr Assange is more unorthodox than most. You or I might contact a travel agent and book our holiday through them, some people these days book theirs through the magic of the interweb. Perhaps he is frightened that they might go bust, as some of them are wont to do at this time of the year, so he has come up with an ingenious solution to his dilemma.
He simply turned up at their embassy in London and demanded that they give him a free trip there. The Ecuadorians are said to be considering the implications of offering him the equivalent of a deluxe package tour.
He may simply have been put off from returning to his native Australia, by thinking it is not safe. Recent reports of dingos eating babies may have coloured his thinking. But the case that they are referring to is over 30 years old and he looks too big for that fate to overtake him.
My advice would be for him to go back home. Providing he keeps away from the outback and some of the spiders, he should be perfectly safe.
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