"The Mediterranean is worth the trip alone." Syd hummed out, thinking back to his time there. "Nice and warm, the people are friendly and the food is delicious." In having been afforded a summer's worth of travel after graduating, Syd hadn't gone too far, but the typical places young men of his station seemed to gravitate toward. He could see why, but it felt like eons ago now.

"Now I've got myself wondering if I could find a work excuse to get down there." He chuckled, taking another sip of his ale. "Feels hard to get away from the zoo like that. There's so much to it. Much more than my hospital work." That had been hard to take time off from as well, but there were departments full of capable people. Here, the administration fell all on him.