Visa is underway, medicals done, police checks applied for.
We decided to fly late August... while hunting for low fares the fares started to rise due to fuel prices... oops! Our £800 ish return with Emirates became £1000. For not much more we could fly with Singapore. So for about £1100 each (economy) we will fly the shortest mainstream route, in the air for around 20 hours each way.
SingaporeAir have an offer to entice transit passengers into the city, included in the price above is a stopover in Singapore with transfers to a central hotel for one night - which means that we will have a base for our 2 days, arriving early day 1 and leaving at midnight day 2. The hotel will look after our bags and the airport offers a simple visitor visa on demand.
Most efforts are now going into preparation... apart from dealing with the house it's all about loose ends and posessions. Time for a party later. With 5 weeks to go it's time to cancel stuff like subscriptions and policies. It has just taken me 18 months to close a dormant account with a high street bank so I'm expecting a few service providers to be a bit erm reluctant to part.
OH has started to look for music and comedy gigs in Melbourne, hopefully it's easier to get a ticket for gigs in Oz than it is here. But I doubt it.
