Three weeks to go!

Hello dear chums,

It appears that I am emigrating three weeks today. This evokes a mixture of panic and excitement. I thought I might have a try at a blog to keep you all informed of what I am up to, and a three week run up with very little in the way of concrete plans organised seems like a good place to start. We'll see if I manage to keep it up. And if I make it over there without forgetting anything major. Like my own head.

So, as of today I have somewhere to stay when I get to Stockholm - tick - and a job to go to. Which are two big things, hurrah! What I don't have sorted is roughly everything else. And I only know two Swedish words - hej and tack - one of which I am not sure how to pronounce!

The current travel plans are an epic road trip with Nosh and Chantal. Drive from Edinburgh to Harwich (south England), catch an 18 hour ferry to Esbjerg in Demark, and then across the Oresund bridge into Sweden. This should take around three days, and the advantages of it are manifold. One - I don't have to get on a plane all by my self in Edinburgh and leave everyone at once. Two - Nosh and Chantal can come to Stockholm! Three - stuff. I can take some of it. And my bike. And Ella! Four - epic road trip. Need I say more?

At some point this week I should also probably pack, since my Mum is coming to drive everything I am not taking down to Wales for storage on Sunday. Ack!

Bye for now!
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