Ready to Split to Split

Day 1 (or minus 1 depending on your point of view)

After two years of planning and saving we are almost ready to begin our new adventure.  We only have a few jobs left on the list and then we are ready to go.  For two such risk adverse people I cannot quite believe that we are going to do this but we are both very excited and looking forward to it very much.  Sleep was hard to come by last night and we both feel like children on Christmas Eve.

Mark is just having a minor crisis with the lawn mower as it seems to know that we are going away and is making all sorts of peculiar noises.  I suspect that another trip to Homebase is imminent. 

The next major challenge will be to see if we can fit everything we think we will need into our bags and rucksacks and still be able to lift them let alone ensure we are within the baggage limit.  The notion of travelling light is rather an alien concept and who knew that we would need so many adapters and chargers for all the technology we apparently cannot do without.

We are travelling up to Gatwick by train tonight for our flight with EasyJet to Split at 0610 tomorrow morning.  Split is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Croatia and building is believed to have been started by the Romans in 298 AD.  It is also a great place from which to explore the islands of Vis, Hvar and Brac which we fully intend to take advantage of. 

Anyway more later as the packing will not do itself!