Four weeks to go!

Welcome to the first entry of our travel blog. The next one will come from a sunny, exotic beautiful place....jealous yet?

Moved out of the maison de petit pois on 16th Sept :(

I'm living at my dads and Si is residing at his parents.......long are the days when i have slept in a single bed.......have bumps on my head to prove it.

Have sort of packed but my bag but it's sooooo heavy that when i put it on my back i fell over like a turtle and couldn't get up! Will try and sneak some into si's bag! Recommended 10kg my arse...they obviously don't know about ladies bare essentials.

Meanwhile I (Simon) haven't packed my bag yet, but somehow vast amounts of conditioner and moisturiser have worked there way in there! Most things are booked for the first 3 months, until we get to New Zealand except a few hostels/hotels in Australia that need to be sorted.

Jabs are all sorted but I (not Si as he gave the pharmacist special favours and got the same for £7!) had to pay £126 for my malaria tablets......they had better be good. Mind you what with the mosquito net, coils and jungle formula everyone has bought me I should be safe?

Have scrimped and saved like mad to afford this trip (donations are more than welcome.....will accept cheques, cash and all major credit cards :) so that we can afford all the things that we have always wanted to see and do.

Everyone keeps on asking me (becka) if I am getting excited about going but to be honest I haven't had time to think about it until two nights ago when me and my dad were on google earth following the same route I am about to take in just four weeks! I got soo excited I nearly peed my pants :)

This is going to be my (simon) 4th trip to Australia and 3rd to New Zealand now so I sort of know what to expect there but I have never been anywhere in Asia before except for Singapore. I'm sure Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos will be a shock to the system, especially mastering the squat toilet but I can't wait!

Anyway that is all for the first excerpt of our adventure, more to follow in about 4 weeks time!

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