our shipping allowance went on our dog!!!! The whole of it went in one go! Serious we went through such a nightmare shipping items - we packed about twenty boxes full of dvds, clothes,and books! Then it took about SIX month to come though customs! We brought our tv over but that got broken!

serious i would take as little as you can with you, books yes the decent ones are so hard to find out here, dvds if you watch them yes,clothes for sure! other bits id say no! theres amazing furniture, kitchen bits, bathroom bits out here you can get anything you need! Sentimental things - i would say no purely becuase they might get lost on there way over - photos and such for sure, letters for sure but the big things no!

i really wish we had brought with us half of what we did,we brought too much stuff, we have accumulated even more and when we move on i hate to think how many boxes we will have to pack.

try and pack as little as you can you can get anything out here excpet good books! hope this helped!