How on earth do you fit 12 weeks of stuff into a measly rucksack?!.... I'm sitting surrounded by clothes, flip flops, guide books, phrase books, sun cream and bug spray, looking that this little 70lt backpack thinking there is noway in hell thats all going to fit in there. I gave it my best shot and gave up, I might just hire a donkey or something to help me carry stuff around.... There's two days to go, so I should be at panic level for everything that I haven't done, yet it actually appears that, I am reasonably ready, which probably means that at 2am on monday I'll sudenly realise that I haven't actually got a passport or something rediculusly unachievable in the hour I'd have before going to Stansted. Cat's flying down later on this
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