We leave on Friday, and before then we have to make sure all our equipment is working, that we will be able to get Internet once we get there and that we put enough pounds and euros in our account for 4 months of diesel fuel, food and tourist attractions.
I tried to work out how much we'd need based on the Big Mac Index (google it) but apparently The Economist hasn't published it's report yet, besides it doesn't isolate individual EU countries. I somehow doubt that a Big Mac costs the same in Greece or Ireland as it does in Germany at the moment, but cest la vie (it's probably different in France too).
After leaving Australia we need to change currencies 10 times (Australia> South Korea> EU> Britain> EU> Britain> EU> Poland> Czech Republic> EU> Australia). It's going to be complicated.
Also, on a nerdier note, I'm trying to work out how to streamline the checking in process on my iPhone. At the moment, I can check in on Foursquare, Facebook and now Google+. It's going to take a while to do all three. I'd say it's likely that I'll end up doing none of them and just leaving it to the location marker on twitter to let the more paranoid of my family members and stalkier of my friends know where we are. Still, it seems like a problem that could be solved by a canny app developer.
Off to the bank to convert AUD to EUR and GBP. The bank is going to take a substantial amount of money out of that transaction for themselves, but it turns out (after a bit of research) that nothing can be done about that.
Oh. I'm really excited and all that as well.
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