With Croatia sailing only a
few days away, this cold only mean one thing. Bikinis.
And shorts, and dresses, and
singlets.
I went into H&M with a
rough shopping list:
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Black shorts
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Beach bag
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White bikini top
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Black bikini top
-
Coloured bikini
But H&M just had so much
stock; so many bathers in different colours and styles, and they were so cheap!
Hi mum, I went shopping, again!
With the change room limit at
six items per customer, I literally visited the change rooms four times in the
first H&M, and twice in the next.
Similar to London, Munich had
several H&M stores in close proximity to each other – handy, but also
dangerous.
So what did we end up with? I
came out with my black shorts, a beach bag, and enough bikinis for every day of
the week!
My purchases
Livi's purchases
Ash’s purchases
With Croatia sailing as well
as the increasingly warmer weather in mind, I wanted some new summer threads.
After two and a half months of the same clothes, I hated everything in my
backpack!
I got all of my purchases for
around $150 AUD – maybe $180 after our stop at the second H&M…
Let's take our new clothes out to lunch
Having bought these exciting
new clothes, we were conscious that the zips on our bags were threatening to
burst, and we could barely lift our ridiculously heavy packs.
It was time to send shit home.
It was a sign; our hostel was
conveniently located opposite a post office. We walked straight in, picked up
the largest size international box we could find, and began to fill it.
Blonde moment: Instead of
purchasing the boxes, taking them back to the hostel, filling them and bringing
them back to the post office, we walked into the building with plastic bags
full of clothes and shoes and sleeping bags, and packed them on the store
floor.
Definitely an oversight.
But it meant my backpack was
now 7-10kg lighter, having sent home most of my winter clothing and items I
wasn’t using. I sent home:
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My bulky Zara knit jumper
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Tracksuit pants
-
3 long-sleeve tops
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4 t-shirts
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My sleeping bag, which I was yet to use
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Winter scarves
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Travel clothesline I hadn’t used
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Small souvenirs too heavy to carry around
We each sent a box home,
thinking the cardboard was going to explode on the trip back to Australia.
Ash’s package definitely struggled – we needed extra packing tape to close it
up!
Knowing we would need to send
our winter clothes home at some stage we had emailed around to shipping
companies for quotes to send 10-15kg to Australia. These all came back quite
pricey, and from what we had heard from friends and family who had travelled in
the past, we were going to be looking at a hefty fee.
And now for the price. I
actually thought I would be paying €180-200 to send my package home. To my
surprise, it only cost €42 to send 7-10kg back to Australia, plus the cost of the
box (around €5).
Can I get a hallelujah!
We sent our stuff home through
DHL, and were promised our packages would arrive home in the short time of two
weeks.
Sure enough, they did. And I
wake up to a picture of my sisters with my opened package, wearing all my new
clothes.
Sneaky buggers
It’s an offence to open
someone else’s mail, right?!
Postman Nikki
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