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It doesn’t quite feel real but Kate and I are sitting here in the Qantas Club lounge waiting to be called for the flight to Mumbai.

We’ve spent the day packing and completed a “trial pack”. Here’s the complete list of what we’re packing.

Day -2: Some final farewells tonight for Sydney friends, at “The Shack Party Bar”, our local backpackers’ pub down the end of Francis Street in Bondi Beach. The big surprise was the unexpected arrival of my dad, who secretly flew down from Brisbane for the occasion. Thanks dad!

In order to make friends in the office, offer them food… Where possible, write your own epilogues… Even if you have no idea what you are talking about

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It’s one of those great packing dilemmas - whether or not to take a tripod for your camera.

Advantages of a short haircut include no need to pack a hairbrush or even a comb, no need to give difficult instructions to foreign barbers, and

debating the number of pairs of underpants that we should each take travelling. Personally, I am happiest with a bare minimum - wash one, wear one. For the record, Kate is taking