Ahh, in that case i am jealous. The other half doesn't want to go to Japan anytime soon so i'll have to wait a few years to go there :/
I've been to alot of places in the past, well since 2000 i've been abroad once or twice per year, but yet to do anything like my cousin has, he just got back from a trip to veitnam then to australia, then to new zealand then to ibiza and around the EU to then come back home. God knows how the hell he paid for it though. I'd love to go travelling for a few months or even a year, just get out and see the world without being tied down to a office job.
You sound similar to me when it comes to breakfast, i don't wake up till 11am due to the main reason that i'm on holiday so i'm having a lay in and i'll get out when i want to. To make use of bed and breakfast i'd have to wake up to conform to the hotel breaky hours, thats just not ideal.
I wouldn't say the risk is being a control freak, the risk i see is eating the veg abroad and they wash it in their water and you end up ill because of it lol i know in Egypt you don't trust any water unless you know that it came from a water bottle, sealed and with a plastic cover to prove it hasn't been opened since it left the factory. Surprisingly i eat alot of Pasta, bread and butter and any meat in eyesight whilst abroad... at home i can't stand pasta.
Odd.