Leaving
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At the departure lounge. Internet access will be sparse given you know, China, censorship, etc etc. See you on the flipside!
My Packing List
Filed Under Style, Travel with 11 Comments
What I’m packing for China:
Clothing
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Shoes
Health
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Toiletries
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Other
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It probably looks like a lot of clothes, but it’s essentially enough for a week’s worth of clothing without having to do a load of laundry. It actually also squashes into two small vaccuum bags/space storage bags, which are, by the way, the best invention for travellers. Use a roll up vaccuum storage bag, and you can almost double the storage space in your luggage, leaving that much more room for shopping overseas.
Am I forgetting something really obvious? Please let me know!
T Minus 60 Hours
Filed Under Fitzwilliam Darcy, House, Travel with 6 Comments
I’m leaving for China (via a few days in Melbourne) in T minus sixty hours, and as seems customary for me before a trip, am having a crisis.
Under normal circumstances, one of my colleagues who still lives at home with her parents would have stayed at my place for the two and a half weeks that I’m going to be out of Australia, and looked after Darcy for me. Unfortunately, my landlord who knows nothing about my cat has planned to completely renovate my kitchen (new cabinets and everything) and repaint my whole apartment while I am away, so I have had to organise alternative arrangements for Darcy.
As no one else I knew in Sydney could take him, I’ve booked him into a penthouse suite at Aragon Cattery which works out to $28AUD a day. I toured a number of them last weekend to find one that was right for my cat, and while there were many that were quite a bit cheaper (around $10-$15 a day), it was really a case getting what you pay for. Tiny individual cages, cold hard concrete, no stimulation, metal cages, 130 cats in the one long room, staff who couldn’t care less…it was like a cat concentration camp. On the other hand, Prue (owner of Aragon Cattery) made a really good impression on me – she obviously knew all the cats (around two dozen at the time) individually, looked after them like they were her own, spent time playing with all of them, they had toys, visual stimulation, top quality food, everything like that. Darcy’s going to end up having an amazing holiday.
So while cat accommodation sorted, my crisis is around logistics – I have to clear out the kitchen entirely so that they can remodel, move things around in my apartment so they can paint, cleaning my apartment, and also somehow arrange to get Darcy to the cattery on Saturday morning while still making a 1pm flight. Oh, and I guess I need to pack at some point too…gah, why does this always happen?
I know I’ll have a great time as soon as I step onto the plane…I just have to make it to that point!
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