Almost gone!

Ok so we've just realised packing up a student house as a 20 year old - maybe a couple of badly loaded vans and an unroadworthy ute - is a lot easier than packing up a family home. One shipping container later and countless nights of packing and de-constructing our lives in Elsternwick, Melbourne and we're at last free!!!

This afternoon we say goodbye to Astrid, who came 18 months ago as an au paire and today leaves as a member of our family and great friend. She's off on a 4 month tour of Asian as we head around Australia. We will all miss Astrid so much but we know she won't be a stranger.

Monday morning we're off overseas ourselves - we load our van and camper trailer (and 6 million tonnes of camping, surfing, fishing, kayaking, diving gear) onto the Spirit of Tasmania. The weeks cruising Tasmania, back the mainland on the 15th March and then who knows what........

The Darvalls