The last week or so has been decidedly eventful. We both have all of our visas. (YAY!) I had to go for a chest X-ray before Australia would grant me a working holiday visa. (I'm not sick or dying, good to know). We have a shipping company that is moving our stuff to Aus for us - they arrive next Thursday. We've already *trial* packed our bags to see how much stuff we can take (or rather, can't take), started collating things in a room downstairs, list...

So Edd's passport arrived on Tuesday and I found myself in the Thai embassy first thing yesterday morning. I was genuinely surprised at how easy the whole process was. I went back this morning at 11am to collect them and went straight to the Vietnamese Embassy a few streets down. (Truth be told I took a tube to Victoria as the Embassy is in Victoria Street only to realise that I needed to take the tube to Gloucester Road and walk 0.5 miles to a different Vict...

So it's just over 4 weeks before we set off on our great adventure. Because I don't have enough to do and organising the visas and moving isn't complicated enough, Edd decided to apply for a new passport just to spice things up a bit.We got a letter in the post last week from Her Majesty's passport office saying that Edd had not filled the form in correctly and had written his information outside of the boxes provided. This was quite entertaining ...