12 months out means that we can buy travel insurance. We have pretty much decided on Travel Insurance Direct - not because it's cheaper but because people who have actually made claims against their TID travel insurance report that they get good service and no apparent rip-off. Their sister company Budget Direct were quite reasonable for our claim for the stolen Lancer too, although no-one could ever make Paul and I happy about anything to do with that nasty little experience.
Anyway, on to happier things. We've decided we'll probably leave Sydney on 23 August 2012, fly to Heathrow then hop a bus to Cambridge for a few days. We'd both like to see the Imperial War Museum Duxford which is just down the road. Plus, there are all sorts of other interesting things near and around Cambridge. And, we don't get to go anywhere near that neck of the woods on the actual coach tour.
Then, we'll get to London - maybe in a hire car or maybe just on the train - on 28 August. That puts us in London for the start of the tour which is early the next morning.
I'm also planning other things as we go along - there's still heaps of things to organise. Little stuff like hotels in a bunch of different places - Cambridge, London, Copenhagen, New York (or Washington, haven't decided yet) and Fort Lauderdale - as well as lots of other bits and pieces. And, some of the biggest bits are yet to come - the air fare to London and home from Los Angeles has me quaking in my boots. These airfares are the biggest single entries in my 'budget' document, and I'm still not convinced that I've set aside enough money for them - only time will tell :-)
