On the Sunday morning we drop some of our valuable off at a friends house, so that we can collect them at the end of our trip. This includes the laptops. I realize that I will be suffering laptop separation anxiety and spend a significant part of Saturday backing up files to a hard drive and Dropbox, so that I can access data if needed.
Telling another friend about my separation issues, she politely asks how many devices we will be travelling with that can connect to the internet. Um only 4, I reply a little sheepishly. Maybe I'll cope!
Monday is the day the shippers arrive! Since we have not had a car in the 3 years we have lived in Montreal, I feel entitled to reserve a big space in front of our house. None of the neighbors seem to mind!
Even though we have boxed most of our stuff, the shippers spend most of the day packing and wrapping. When we left the UK 5 years ago we had 6 suitcases and 2 boxes. When we left Australia 3 years ago we had 6 suitcases and 38 boxes. Now we are departing Canada, we find that we have 6 suitcases and 121 boxes!
I have no idea how we managed to accumulate so much stuff, and only 6 of the packages are bike boxes!
Tuesday morning and we are packed and ready to go!
Bike padlock keys are boxed up with the bicycles, my work office key handed in last Thursday, and now the house keys are being left behind.
It feels quite weird being completely keyless!
The final departure from the house. (It's the house that is for rent, not Stuart!)
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