InvictaMoto's Family Travels

I have gone over the paperwork so many times it has left copy marks on my retina! My last job was ordering some Norwegian currency from Thomas Cook. I did it online and arranged to collect the cash today. Only £60's worth. There wasn't much choice as all the other companies had very high minimums. My usual source, the Post Office, the minimum was £400! Norge dosh As we are on a cruise with pretty much all-inclusive food and drink I didn't want too much cash. We have plenty of cards to use if we buy anything. We have stops in Stavanger, Olden and Alesund and so we might need a few krone in the pockets in case of a coffee or maybe a postcard. Do people still send postcards? We have been to Stavanger and Olden before so we can be a little more relaxed and choose where we want to go rather than going at it like tourist bees.  . Alesund is new territory. I have a Rough Guide to Norway booklet I bought a while back to look at and also there will be Trip...

At the moment it looks as though the destination for our 2019 main holiday will be the US and probably/possibly Florida. Now we are stuck with having school holidays along with the hordes and their kids to get two weeks together can only be Easter or Summer. On top of that there is the airfare to consider. Whilst I still have the timeshare I need to make the most use of it and the US gives the best value for money. It's a balancing act, on the one hand the higher airfare but far better resorts, or lower airfare (or drive) and lower standard but expensive resorts. What the Americans consider low in value at home would be much higher priced in Spain! Last year we stayed in Pompano Beach, disrupted due to the hurricanes,. but the studio was far better appointed and situated than most we have tried in Spain and that cost considerably more. Currently I am looking at airfares to see what deals there are. So many airlines are rogering us with added payments. Basically all...

I had originally planned the trip to the Assen round of BSB   as a weekend away for me and Claire in the car but since the disappointment of the MotoGP at Assen it has got a little bigger. We have Claire's hip operation hanging over us and until we get a firm date or even a hint of roughly when it will be, it is difficult to start making to many hard plans. I had booked a twin room in hotel we have stayed at a few times before (in 2009 / 2010 ) before at De Wapse. Claire and I will still need to go in the car and Neill may still want to ride his BMW "Ginny" up there. So with three of us we need another room.  De Wapse was oddly full on the Friday night and I had booked Sat/Sun nights.   Neill has booked two rooms elsewhere from Friday to Monday, three nights.   At the moment it all hinges on the hip op.   Of course, Reggie still needs to go on his holiday and that will complicate things a little and at £14 a day I'd r...

With the uncertainty about when Claire will get her hip replacement operation I decided to cancel our booking to attend the Australian commemoration at the  Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, in France. The closing date for tickets was way back last year and I had entered the ballot for both Claire and myself. We were successful, So that they can re-allocate to someone else I decided to cancel now. It would be one of those events that will never be repeated, but there you go.