David and Jo's Adventures: Up's & downs High's & lows

SAT 1^st Feb 2014

Last night Jo mentioned if we would definitely be all right to drive in Europe on our Australian driving licences now that the authorities had cancelled my European licence. Of course a google search on the net revealed that no we could not and would need an Australian International Driving Licence!!!!!! So after a sleepless night and doubts that should we actually be doing this trip, is someone trying to tell us something, we again sorted out a plan to get this problem solved. Sheila’s next door neighbour Natalie kindly printed off the forms we needed plus copies of our passports and driving licences, so we could then rush to the post office (thankfully it was open on Sat mornings) to get photos taken and send everything to Australia by express post to hopefully get it all back by paying the extra postage on the return post (another $200 out of the budget!). Also realised that Jo’s driving licence runs out in May 2014 and mine Nov 2014 so we will have to do all this again when they are due as the Internationals run out the same time as the normal licences. HAPPY DAYS!!!!!!! Went from here with Sheila to look at a couple of pushbikes for sale in the local paper but they were not suitable. Did some food shopping and returned to David and Sheila’s for lunch, sorted out our clothes and other items in the van which put us in a better mood for the rest of the day. Took the dogs for a walk and shopped for a small present for Molly’s (Sheila and David’s granddaughter) birthday as we are all there tonight for dinner with all the family which should be good. I know what the topic of conversation will be!!!!Very up and down emotions over the last week but hopefully it will all be worth it in the end and we will learn from our mistakes and experiences.