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So, if they’re collected the day before we leave and we travel over 2 days, they should be with us… soon! Yet, during the various stops of your journey we already found out that, with the 1^st of January being bank holiday and then the weekend, they would arrive at the end of the next week… well, all in all it took them 15 days!

Plus a preliminary visit to DHL and the airport and then a seemingly endless, but actually 3.5 hour long, wait at the airport, where we played a not-so-nice game of presenting documents, waiting, presenting them again, paying custom tax here, waiting, paying handling fees there, waiting, getting copies done there, ordering all the copies, getting them stamped here, showing them there, finally grabbing the bags, stop!, presenting those XXXX documents again, getting some more stamps, filling a couple of forms… OUT! WE’VE GOT THEM IN THE CAR: step on the gas, ride home fast, before they chase us!

Time for a big family party, all our stuff is home! What was so important? Well, with 30celsius in the shade, the missing sandals were becoming a bit of an issue; cutlery and dishes were very welcome on our table and the arrival of the ice-cream maker (our one and only real luxury item) was celebrated in style the very next day with a delicious mango-chocolate chips marvel, but just ask the boys and the answer is simple: the bags contained one necessary thing, LEGO! Apart from some small things, we haven’t brought a lot of different toys, going instead for one big choice, which proved to be the right one: since then, they haven’t done anything else inside, apart from homework! Why did we bring the rest?

Anyway, the two oldies are happy as well, now that we’ve got all we needed, which is easily seen as way too much, once you take a short stroll around the neighbourhood (instead of driving to the city centre to buy a few more things)… shame on us! Luckily God is always ready to forgive.