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Travel Insurance - Very, Very Boring! But absolutely essential to try to get it right. This long rambling post is an attempt to describe some of the pitfalls of the travel insurance minefield and how you might avoid some of them using our own

I'm writing this at the start of December 2025, the Christmas twig is up and illuminated. And our plans for 2026 are in place already! We've got three trips booked - yes, booked. I'm so organised! As one of us is celebrating her 70th birthday

This is a description of a holiday that was planned, mostly booked and never taken! It was planned as a grand pan-European odyssey back in those heady days of 2019 & 2020 when the world had never heard of Covid or lockdowns. Ah! Such innocence.

I'm writing this in the heat of an August day in 2024 and I'm thinking about our possible travels during 2025. I told you I was a planner! I think the budget can stretch to three decent breaks in 2025, although there is a bit of a fly in the