2 more weeks to go...

The old song "two more weeks to go, two more weeks to Christmas" is running through our minds. 10 working days.

This afternoon was taken up with some sorting through the stuff that we've accumulated and throwing things out. Amazing what was still stuck at the back of the cupboards. Of course it's important to sort stuff into piles and throw things out that are not worth shipping between countries.

The news of the terrorism plot raised questions over how easy our flights to Canada (and on to UK) will be. If we cannot take a book or laptop onto the 16 hour flight to Vancouver, I think we'll end up going mad on the way. I hope we'll be ok on the trip to Vancouver and will not need to check so much in. But the flight from Toronto to Heathrow will be a challenge.

We now need to get organised with places to stay (Vancouver and Toronto are booked). We realised that we arrive into Milan at the start of Fashion Week, so we are expecting that it's going to be busy and difficult to find places to stay. The trip has also changed slightly, and from Milan we're flying back through Paris, stopping for a couple of nights before we fly back to KL. Milan-Singapore flights were full, so we had to find an alternative route back to Asia.