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We’d quite a detailed timeline taking us right up to the point of clicking the submit button on the visa application. An

d, then we ran off the end of that and find ourselves with two blank months.

That’s not to say that we’ve nothing to do, just that we need to update our plan with all the kind of things that we need to do. Some are there in outline form, and others will need added.

Our initial investigation was how to get the dogs out there (Tasmania doesn’t seem to allow cats). There’s several specialist places that do it, most of which go from Heathrow which doesn’t suit us, and all of which finish up in Melbourne where they do all Australian quarantine (usually 10 days, but can be 30 days). Whoever has the dogs registered in their name is the person who needs to hand over the dogs to the transport company. Initial quote came out at £7000 for both dogs which isn’t that bad.

Next up is getting our stuff there. We’ll likely not be taking everything from our existing house, but thinking that a 20 foot container is the way to go and that seems to be about £10,000 or so, though we’ll be needing more detail on the quote as we want it packed on this end and stored over there ’til we have our house organised.

Very early days, but step one is to get the plan fleshed out a lot more.

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