Slowly but surely we are starting to say goodbye's. Peter's cousin and his wife came by this afternoon to say goodbye (ok, one month earlier than expected, but what the ... ;-).

After the dinner table and chairs and some smaller plants where picked up last week, today our big palm-plant (2m high) has been picked up. Another new empty spot in the house!

A lot of times we are asked why we are emigrating to Australia, and although it is not very simple to explain it, the following link does cover a big part of it:
http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com

Another link that we would like to share with you is the following one. This Sunset Cottage is the house that we will be renting from the end of April till the end of June (and after that, who knows, maybe stay there a bit longer, maybe we'll be looking for a house to buy of our own):
http://www.ozstays.com/7896

SOLD - SOLD - SOLD - SOLD - SOLD - SOLD

Hi all,
As of today it is formal, the financial condition has passed without the buyers making use of it! (See the picture, for the non-Dutch readers: VERKOCHT means SOLD).

So, this morning we have also booked the (one way !) tickets to Perth. Yesterday evening we have been looking into possibilities about leaving as early as possible. We found that if Ellen works 3 Fridays (we normally do not work on Fridays) we can even leave a week earlier than our last plan.

So, we expect to arrive in Perth on Thursday April 6th, 2006. Scheduled arrival time 14:35.
Of course, we´ll probably spent some time at immigrations before actually leaving the airport ;-)