Touch down

Well, we've arrived in Coffs Harbour - Thursday afternoon at about 2pm to be exact. The 980+ kms from Wagga were a bit of a trial: towing a trailer slows you down and the car was drinking petrol! But we're here. We've picked up the keys to the house, bought mattresses, a teak table and chairs for the veranda, a sofa bed and two fold up chairs for the house, a TV, fridge and washing machine... The garden furniture, sofa bed, chairs and mattresses all arrived yesterday, and the white goods should arrive this morning, which is great service since we only bought them yesterday lunchtime. Telephone connection is not such good news: Telstra have let us down repeatedly and now our internet/phone connections may be hooked up on TUESDAY!! Michael is furious...

So I am blogging this from our hotel room just before we check out. Knowing that we wouldn't have a fridge or anything to sleep on immediately, Michael had the foresight to book us into a resort hotel for a couple of nights, and in view of the absence of phone connections it is just as well he did!

Anyway, we're off to have breakfast and then move out, so we won't have any phone or internet until later in the week unless we can find an internet cafe. So don't panic if we can't immediately reply to emails or Skype you! We'll catch up with you in a few days, with a bit of luck.