The countdown to Round the World Voyage continues

 

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205 days to go before embarkation

My company, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has now been informed of the details of my holiday, and has made an offer to extend my contract till September 2023 and to extend my current holiday allowances to cover the extended period. 

Albina seems quite resolved to enjoy the voyage and to delay any celebration of our fiftieth wedding anniversary from August 7th this year to February 28th 2023.  That is her pretend 75th birthday date. I say pretend because she is actually a classic leap year baby, born February 29th 1948. But I still intend to celebrate this anniversary on Sunday, come what may.

We still need to prepare visas through CIBT from October this year and to warn our doctors and our clinic to ensure the right supply of medicines for that period and the right inoculations. I note that we will need visas for Egypt, India, Vietnam, China and USA. Our last journey to the United States was in 2012, so we will probably need a new 10 year visa.

We will have to stack up our finances so that we can spend what we will need to enjoy the trip to the full and save money everywhere else. So no holidays in the meantime. Just as well, in view of the chaos at the airports.