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Francophile

PS Merrywidow Hope you find your passport.

Savvy_Sue

Francophile wrote: »

PS Merrywidow Hope you find your passport.

I'll try to think where Merrywidow's passport might be if she'll try to think where my little purse I keep euros is.

So far I have looked in the suitcases and bags where I keep some of my travel bits (converter plugs etc), the drawers where I keep travel bits, the glory hole drawer downstairs (you know, the one where you put all the odds'n'sods like sellotape and staplers and string and batteries, every home must have one!) and now going through my itsy bitsy drawer.

Oh, and the Christmas box, because I KNOW I had it when wrapping presents, because I gave one of my nephews some euros for an upcoming school trip.

So, have you checked all of those places?

seven-day-weekend

I am well pleased with myself, this is only a small thing, but will help us a lot.

I have been saving 2-euro coins for two years and have just clocked up 200 euros worth.

This will pay for our fuel, accommodation and tolls there and back when we drive across Spain in the summer. We may come back via France, don't know yet.

Also, we had no English money and my husband's cousin visited us in January and gave us £80! (It was for some cigarettes we had brought over for her a few years ago and she forgot to pay for). We'd also forgotten, so it seems like free money!

Glad to say she's packed up smoking now, I must admit we didn't really like buying fags as we are both non -smokers.

Merry Widow and Savvy Sue, hope you find your passport and purse.

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lol. We have booked 3 holidays so far and the second one is a coach trip abroad. We have never been on a coach trip like this so it`s very much a case of suck it and see. We will be picked up close to home so no traipsing down to gatwick, which is a big bonus. If the company is good then we will be doing regular trips especially all over GB

The first break is a large sc cottage in the cotswolds and the whole family are going to turn up and do their bit re food etc

I have also booked a 3 week break abroad next feb. A bit of warmth and a bit of history. Saga and all in, so cheap.

I bought myself an mp3 player that has 16 gb and can take programmes from iplayer, so I am going to download plays etc from the radio for travelling. Earphones for both of us. Bits for my dh`s road bike etc etc. I am loosening the frugal reins at last :T

seven-day-weekend

I'd be interested to know about the coach trips kittie. May be doing more of that myself when I get my Pension in January.

donny-gal

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7DW - Don't know how much of Spain you have managed to see, but they do coach trips from the coast here.

Also we do the drive via France all the time and prefer it to the Bilbao ferry, we find that boring, and a captured market for expensive food/drink. Most of the way we do without tolls a al Tom Tom, but I also refer to the map and nip on the motorways now and again when they take a problem/long way round off.

DG

seven-day-weekend

Now we actually much prefer the PoB ferry to driving through France and take much of our own food with us!

And tea, coffee, powdered milk and a travel kettle.

The drive through France seems endless and by the time you've paid for the accommodation, it csts about the same as the PoB.

Still, each to their own.

Merrywidow

Yes Sue, I too have two drawers where I keep all the travel bits and bobs. These days I don't even bother to empty my toiletries bag, I have those little sample tubes and travel bottles. I had to take my passport to the town hall in January to get a form stamped to prove I was still alive for my pension company in Holland and I am beginning to think I may have lost it when I was out that day. Failing that I really don't know. With general housework it would have surfaced again by now.

Merrywidow

Kittie - which Saga trip have you planned? I have been pouring over their brochures - I went to Tenerife in December, Aguamarina, All Inclusive. Hotel was great but I wasn't too thrilled with Tenerife. Couldn't warm to the black sand - looked like a coal tip. I too am warming to coach trips. The mere thought of Gatwick brings me out in hives. On our return from Tenerfie in December we landed at 8pm, I had a taxi waiting and it took them till 10.15 to unload the luggage. There was nearly a riot in the baggage hall, and the taxi driver had steam coming out of his ears!

Savvy_Sue

Merrywidow wrote: »

Yes Sue, I too have two drawers where I keep all the travel bits and bobs. These days I don't even bother to empty my toiletries bag, I have those little sample tubes and travel bottles. I had to take my passport to the town hall in January to get a form stamped to prove I was still alive for my pension company in Holland and I am beginning to think I may have lost it when I was out that day. Failing that I really don't know. With general housework it would have surfaced again by now.

I am sorry to hear your passport hasn't surfaced, neither has my little purse, although I wouldn't expect anything to surface here through 'general housework'!

To top it all, neither DH nor I can find PINs for our Nationwide Debit Cards, which makes me think we weren't sent them. Which meant two trips to the PO today (we're off to the airport in :eek: 4.5 hours time!) - the first by me to get an emergency tenner's worth of Euros, and the second by him to get a little more than that because he'd realised he had no PIN! And we have money transferred into that account ready to use, and I had to use the Automated Telephone System from Hell to order a new one.

Anyway, better get to bed. See you all in a week ... ski-ing in Fuerteventura! :rotfl: (Oh and DS3 is throwing up. He's not coming, but I do feel guilty leaving him. I'm hoping he's stopped now. And that I don't start.)