InvictaMoto's Family Travels

Each year for our wedding anniversary we have been going away for the weekend or a week even. Sometimes to Spain to the timeshare and sometimes across the Channel to France. With Reggie in tow last year we had him inoculated against "la rage" or rabies as we call it in English, and he got his passport. We went across to France and Belgium and visited some family war graves on their centenary. This year we looked at holiday rentals (gites) in France and also in England. It's become apparent that France has more to offer and at more pocket friendly rental cost than at home! So I started looking seriously at cottages and mobile homes. Gradually moving northwards to remove the need for overnight hotels where Reggie is less happy. Finally settling on the north of France. Another consideration is that under the terms of the pet passport Reggie has to be wormed between 120 and 24 hours before he arrives back at the port to return to England. So before booking an...

This week had another email from Finnair to change the flight times. It's the third since Christmas. Firstly the outward flight was put back five minutes. Then a week later the inward flight was put back ten minutes. The latest is that the inward has changed again and is now five minutes earlier. So after all that we have settled on both flights now five minutes later than originally planned. At least it's not as bad as Air Canada changing a flight by 9 hours later!!