Sherbetdip23 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hi everyone First time I have had chance to come on Poms since arriving in Oz as we have been a tad busy as you can imagine! Here's our story so far......... We left the UK 14th March and headed off to Sentosa Island in Singapore for a week before taking on all the aussie challenges. We figured we deserved a little holiday after all the stress and emotional turnmoil of leaving the UK :-) Sentosa Isand is beautiful and we would thoroughly recommend the Rasa Sentosa Hotel. Singapore Zoo is great too and well worth a visit if you are stopping off. We are lucky enough to have rellies on the Gold Coast so we were met at Brisbane airport by my husbands Auntie and Uncle and one of his cousins - we needed two cars to get all our luggage back to their house! As our shipping left 3 weeks before we did we underestimated just how much stuff we had left behind (just incase we needed it in those weeks before our shipping arrived!) In the end we had 5 suitcases, 2 huge holdalls and 5 rucksacks!!! We went over our baggage allowance by a few kilos but not much and not enough to warrant a charge. We went with Singapore Airlines who gave us a double baggage allowance. We were very pleased with Singapore Air. After settling in for a couple of days we set about house hunting which wasn't a particularly easy task - lots of the rentals we called about had gone when we rang - especially the really nice ones. It was difficult as we didn't really know where to start as we wanted to make sure we had a nice house but more importantly we wanted a good school for our girls. In the end we focused on finding a good school then set about getting a house in that catchment area. In the Gold Coast area they work pretty much the same as the UK whereby you need to be in the catchment area of a school to get in. So, after deciding on the school we then managed to find ourselves a lovely rental property which we move into next week! Last Sunday our cat Ruby arrived after 30 days in quarantine! We were soooo pleased to have her back. We used Petair UK who offered a fantastic service and I would thorougly recommend them. Next on the agenda is jobs and cars! Will keep you posted on our adventures :-) Carla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freckleface Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Glad to hear you are getting settled. Hope everything continues to go smoothly for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Great update, keep it coming, we want to hear more, lol. Best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candygirl Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thanks for the update, keep it coming. Did you manage to have afternoon tea with the Orangutans at the Zoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherbetdip23 Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thanks for the update, keep it coming. Did you manage to have afternoon tea with the Orangutans at the Zoo? No time for that :-) Fab day though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Glad youve arrived safely and seem to be enjoying what youve found so far. Good look with moving into your rental and make sure you complete the entry report in great detail. Cal x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherbetdip23 Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Glad youve arrived safely and seem to be enjoying what youve found so far. Good look with moving into your rental and make sure you complete the entry report in great detail. Cal x Thanks Cal - will do x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartertucker Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Glad all is going well, look forward to hearing more..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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