It's official.....

We are officially booked to fly now, finally. We are due to fly out on the 3rd of April, on Qantas, at 1045 arriving in Hong Kong at 1745. From Hong Kong we fly Swiss Airlines departing at 2320 arriving in Zurich at 615 the next morning. Finally from Zurich we fly Swiss again departing at 0720 and arrive in Amsterdam at 0900 the morning of the 4th of April.

On the 30th of May we then fly back to Zurich for the 2 months in Switzerland.

For the moment the return trip works pretty much the same and we're currently set to fly back on the 3rd of August. Although that date is yet to be confirmed so we're allowing a couple of days either side just in case.

Despite I was hoping to have a Bangkok layover in order to use the 'Confucius say: Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways go to Bangkok' joke, I take consolation in the likely hood of getting off the plane in Amsterdam and proclaiming, 'I have just flown in from Australia and man are my arms tired'.

Pining for the fjords....

The flights are being booked as I blog and it is just over 3 weeks until we head off to the Northern Hemisphere. It is now definite that we will be in Amsterdam for the first 2 months and then Switzerland for 2 months and it looks like we will be flying out on the 4th of April. I wouldn't say panic is setting in, more so the realisation of how much has to be done before we go and in a such a small amount of time. The feelings of anticipation and excitement are definitely bearing down on us now.

I had several concerns about the fact that finding work in Switzerland would be near to impossible simply due to their laws (that, and because the time in each place is relatively short) so it was a great relief to find out that I will have some general admin/office work with Scenic.

Now the packing and organisation begins.....