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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... go somewhere just because it's pre booked. We have a few books on brazil and South America so I think we will be relying on them a lot while we are there. I have also got a very fitting travel journal to write everything so as I can put it on the blog later. I have created this so as family and friends can keep up with our progress and we can remember everything too. The plan so far is once ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Tieing up loose ends
... We need to completely tie up all loose ends. Also, by moving to the UK in the first place we've considerably complicated our lives. Now we do not just have one government to deal with, but TWO (2 income tax returns - yay!) as well as 2 separate banking systems dealing with 2 currencies. We also don't have the safety of re-routing everything to 'Mom and Dad's', things need to be settled properly. ...
Gypsies? no.
... lino prints or paintings when I get home.
We visited Perth here in scotland and then onto Dunning - apparently that is where my grandmother's family hailed from years ago. We went in search of Harry Coos for my mum. When she was in scotland doing a tour of some sort the guide said they would soon see Harry Coos. Mum and mureen wondered who this Harry Coos was. It turned out to be hairy cows of the highland variety. So I ...