We’ve been in Perth for 2 weeks and 2 days now, and it’s really been a fairly unremarkable adjustment. We learnt from mistakes made in the last move, and hired a car right from the beginning, so we settled into normal life fairly quickly. The only hitch was getting set up with the Internet, which [...]
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Settling in – a long update
Posted in Emigration on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What does 110kg of luggage look like?
Posted in Emigration on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Something like this… It was thus laden that we arrived in Perth (and transited through Singapore, for that matter). Despite our concerns about whether our 4x20kg of allowance would stretch to cover our bizarre collection of “essentials”, neither airline batted an eye at the weight.
The Sad Life of the Expat Kid
Posted in Emigration, Kids' stuff on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Moving country is tough on everyone, no matter how much you might be looking forward to it, or how well prepared you are for it. Kids, of course, don’t particularly look forward to losing home and friends, and generally aren’t prepared for the “one day” of the promised move. Chickpea and Bugsy are no exception, and although [...]
We have VISAS!
Posted in Emigration on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We got a call at 4:45am to say our Australian visas have been issued. We’re not quite sure if the concept of time zones hasn’t occurred to the immigration attorney, or if this is in revenge for our endless e-mails requesting (non) progress reports, but no matter now. My 5am To Do list runs to [...]
