Two weeks left

Our flat is getting emptier day by day and we are preparing to leave Germany.
It's weird to be working, going about everyday business, while in only fourteen days we will be at the other end of the world.
I already started to collect books for the flight - luckily we live in the era of e-book readers :)

The flight time is 21:55h with a "break" of two hours at Kuala Lumpur airport. Loads of time to read, sleep, annoy the person in front with some kicking, and stare out of the windows.
I hope the food on-board will be edible :)

Almost done!

One Month left.
There's a lot we had to think about in the last weeks, but now there's almost nothing left to do.

Here is what we had to organise:

• Valid passport
• Apply for the Working Holiday Visa
• Book a flight
• International drivers license
• Credit Card
• Health insurance
• make sure we have enough funds for the Visa
• start emptying our flat :) 
• found a very nice family via Couchsurfing to accomodate us a couple of days
• save all important documents as a scan on our email accounts

Now there's some time to stuff all our belonging into the cellar and get the backpacks ready. 

Working Holiday Visa

We've got it!

Against all warnings that a Visa application can take forever and we should apply as early as possible, we didn't even wait a week before it was granted.
It took exactly five days until we got an answer to our online application:

Visa approved!

Now we can lean back and think about what to pack first :)

We've applied!

Today we did the most important of all preparations - we applied for the Working holiday visum!

After a few problems with the Homepage it was quite easy: Give them your personal data, tell them you're healthy and not a criminal and that's about it :) 

Now we are waiting for THE email that allows us to travel to New Zealand. 

Flight date: 26th June. 

It's getting serious!

Travel documents - check.

Passports and international drivers license.
Let's see how many pieces of paper we will be carrying around down there - and probably never need any of them. :)

Summertime...

While we sit here in cold Germany, hoping for no more snow to shovel, still having to put a scarf on every day - It's 26°C in Auckland!

http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/auckland/auckland-central

I am really looking forward to the summer we will spend there.

When we arrive it will be winter, but that's nothing compared to here. Most charts say the lowest temperature in winter is around 5° and it's barely ever snowing. So no shoveling anymore :-D

So I spend the time that's left dreaming of all the beautiful places waiting for us...

for example those:

CNN Travel - 10 great New Zealand beaches

We've got a map!

Just scroll down to the bottom and you will see it :)

This map is going to show the places we want to visit during our journey - cities, hiking tracks, all kinds of sights, etc... And, as soon as we are in New Zealand, the places we have already been to.

Any suggestions?