About To Enter The Home Straight!

Things are beginning to warm up now as we get closer to departure for our trip away.  We fly out in just two weeks.

Cash has been moved about into accounts and now is where it is meant to be.

I have dug out the "Bum Bag" ready for important documents.  This one is relatively thin and can be worn under any under garments secured around your waist.  We are starting to set up computer tablets with movies and music ready for the long long plane trips.  Our first leg is 13 hours I think, from Brisbane to Dubai.  We fly with Qantas/Emirates.

We have ordered a travel sim card for one of our phones, just in case of an emergency.  Once we have received it, it will be activated and I believe we get a UK phone number.  It has a US$50 credit built in which should be enough for what we want.

It cost us AU$24 so we shouldn't go wrong with it.  It is mainly for emergencies and text messaging.  The rates look pretty good but works along the line if you want to call someone, you call this number, then key in the number you want and you are connected.  It is similar to a phone card type of system.

Incoming calls to us are no charge while outgoing text messages are just a few cents.

We have been told there are heaps of free wifi places we can visit as well.  It is highly likely our bus and hotels we stay at will have free wifi.

We have been told it won't be so easy (or cheap) to access wifi on the ship.  We arrive at a new port almost daily so we can grab emails etc at free hot spots around where we land.

There has been plenty of sport still on TV here and the weather remains unseasonably warm.  Low 30's every day, humidity and warm nights.  A cool change is due tomorrow though with temperatures reverting to where they should be at this time of the year, high 20's during the day and around 20 overnight.

An advantage of the warm weather however is that the pool is maintaining its warmth as well.