The weather was lovely over the
weekend, so I dusted off the barbecue and cooked up some yakitori, and dragged
the outdoor chairs out of the shed so we could eat it on the deck.
Over the past few days, I’ve been
working upstairs booking our Chinese accommodation while Kate’s been downstairs
on the laptop booking the European and Russian accommodation. Progress is slow,
but we’re starting to fill in the gaps – Cologne is sorted, as are Beijing,
Shanghai, Pingyao, Guilin and Nanning.
This morning, the postman delivered
two registered packages – one containing our Australian passports, complete
with Vietnamese visas, and another containing all of our Russian train tickets.
We’ve also heard that our Russian visas have come through, so now we just have
to sort out our Chinese visas, which we’ve decided to ourselves as it saves us
about £30 per passport. The great news on the train tickets is that they cost
significantly less than expected - about £500 less!
The other good news is that the
painter/decorator is coming on Monday to start work on repairing the water
damage, which means we can get started on arranging the new carpets. And with
luck we should have chosen a freight company by tomorrow. Friday we're off to get some more jabs (MMR for Kate and I) and to pick up our prescriptions for our malaria tablets.
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