Whew! Travelling is exhausting and we haven't even left home yet! My head is spinning with the things we need to do before flying out on the 22nd. There's 2 months of bills to pay (and of course all the BIG bills arrive in December... land tax, 2 x car registrations, house insurance, rates to name a few). Then there's mail collection and arranging to have any outstanding bills paid while we are gone, house sitting, arranging transport to the airport (the list is endless). But I have allowed myself to start getting a little bit excited. Five months ago we decided that we would have a red hot go at trying to travel to Europe (2 adults and 3 kids... one "kid" has since turned 18 so is now an adult). It meant a huge
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