Packing? DONE

Oh my god everybody it's done. I have packed up my flat, and layed out everything that I'm taking with me. And let me tell you, I feel good. And accomplished.

All that is left to do is stuff all my belongings into my 70 litre backpack and then tidy up my little nook. But that's a job for Saturday. Anyhoo, for your enjoyment, my kit list:

• 70 litre rucksack and a 30 litre day bag
• Lonely Planet guidebooks (Nepal, India and Southeast Asia on a shoestring)
• Union Jack neckpillow (one is ever so patriotic)
• Space towel (microfibre towel) and a small face towel
• Mosquito net
• Silk sleeping bag liner
• Hat, scarf, mitts and woolly socks
• Headlamp
• Mug with Haisuli on it
• Tetley's and Marmite
• Meds (including antibiotics for malaria and diarrea relief tablets)
• A couple of notebooks
• A pair of walking boots, Converse, Toms and flip flops
• A pair of jeans, stripy hippie trousers and trousers that unzip into capris and shorts
• Few t-shirts and tops
• New, clean socks and pants
• A hoodie and a thin cardigan
• A fleece (which will be brought back to Finland by my Mum after Tibet)
• A rainjacket
• Leggings and a skirt
• Swimmers (when I went to South America I forgot to take them... oops)
• My digital SLR
• E-book
• Tablet filled with such entertainment as Miranda, Glee, The New Normal, Mamma Mia, Django...
• Water bottle and water purifying tablets
• And a load of documents and papers and passports that's very interesting
• TOILET PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a long list.

Help.

Of visas and toilet paper.

ONE MONTH TO GO AND THEN I'M OFF

I've got my visas for China and India sorted, so I still need to apply for a Vietnamese one and then the working holiday visa for Australia before I leave. Nepal and Thailand I can get on arrival, same with New Zealand.

I've got my jabs, well almost. I was only missing one for Japanese encephalitis, so I got the first of two jabs yesterday. The second I get 4 days before I leave. I also needed to get my typhoid one renewed, but luckily that one is in pill form, so no pricks and sore arms and muscles. I can tell you I've got a hefty lump of stuff under my skin on my left arm from yesterday; not pleasant.

It hasn't hit me that I'm going. A month is a really short amount of time, and I've got lots of stuff planned for it too, so the next four weeks are going to whizz by. I've not started packing yet, but I have started compiling a list of what I need to pack. The first item on said list? Toilet paper. Because where I'm going, toilet paper is not guaranteed. Not so bad if you're a guy, but when you're a girl....

I have just eaten a bag of frozen grapes and hot diggity they were goooooooooooooooooooood.