Going, going.......

We're packed. Really. We have the thick , warm, woolly clothing, which means there will be a heatwave in Austria. We have the many and various medicaments...blood thinners, heart slowers, eye drops, paracetamol, yes, we need almost a separate suitcase. We have one or two books as I can't cope without some reading material and I don't read German. What else? Small opera glasses, camera, 2 mobile phones, neither of which is likely to work. Passports, tickets, both of which I shall have to check fifty times to make sure I've got them.
And that's it. Apart from handing our keys to our lovely friends who will live in to look after the house,there is nothing more I can do. Well.....maybe just dust round, water the plants, check the heating system.......
No. Enough. Off to , hopefully, a crunchy, snowy Christmas, with log fires and Carols in little village churches. to Beethoven in the Mozarteum. To Christmas markets in the snow, sipping gluhwein.
I'll let you know how it really was when we come back.