As experienced travellers getting ready is usually fairly straightforward. I bought our currency a long time ago at the painful rate of 1.01 Euro to the £. We always have residual stocks of key currencies as there is absolutely no point in exchanging them.
I usually revise a few words of foreign language but am lazy in this respect and am never as proficient as I would like to be even with plenty of time to read and listen to language CDs. I am looking forward to trying a little Arabic in Egypt and, to a lesser extent, in Morocco.
Greg has huge piles of washing and ironing to do over two weeks. There are two reasons for this. One is to make sure our holiday clothes are ready and two, to make sure all our other clothes are ready for our eventual return to reality. I do take different clothes on holiday but I can reveal that I shall be taking three suits as well.
The fun thing that happens this week is having our haircuts. I shall have #2 all over and it will have grown back a little by the time we get our daily exposure to Mediterranean sunshine. It's only to keep me cool really as I shall be under the factor 50 AND a big hat as soon as I step off the ship.
Documentation including the itinerary gets checked several times before departure. I don't believe we could ever leave our passports at home but we did once leave and get a considerable way into our journey to the airport without our dollars!
The most exciting time is exactly 24hrs before our scheduled flight in this case to Barcelona. We open the BA website and hover and wait for the first possible minute of online check-in. With seats assigned and boarding passes printed we feel truly ready.
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