- a wallet big enough to hold unfolded British pounds (British pounds are bigger than our banknotes, and they get bigger as the denomination increases, and so I don't have to take all my everyday-at-home stuff out of my everyday-at-home wallet)
- some zip-up document wallets (to hold the paperwork - accommodations details, print-at-home tickets, etc - for each city we're going to visit), and
- a purple, fringed silk scarf (because we're going to Paris, and one needs a fabulous scarf for Paris. I'm ready to go now!).
Yesterday I collected some British pounds that I'd ordered through my bank last week, and they're stashed safely in my new wallet. Last night I found a world time website, and we've worked out suitable contact times between London/Paris/Rome and Australia.
I've made a list of people whose addresses I want to take with me, so we can send them a postcard, and a list of things I need/want to do in the next three weeks.
I received, in today's mail, my shiny new Visa debit card. And someone from Slow Travel told me about the Harry Potter walking tour in Oxford, which appears to only run once in October - serendipitously on the very day we are planning to visit! And there are places available on the tour, despite the November tour being fully booked already. I checked with Miss Tizz that this was a tour she'd like to do (Yes yes YES!), and tried booking it online, only to have the e-store checkout process fail several times ('Your session has timed out', even though I went straight to the checkout after adding the tours to my shopping cart). Hmmm. So I've emailed the people, and hopefully someone will get back to me soon.
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