Financial & Travel Musings

If you’ve had a reasonable summer season chances are that it’s time to get the pre-winter maintenance tasks done before putting all the equipment away ’til the next season.

The physical things are easy enough to identify and though they’re a bit of a pain to do they need doing before everything is put away or you’ll just have a whole heap of trouble next time you try to use the stuff. Where it’s less obvious is for the intangible things like motorhome insurance which is something that’s very easily forgotten about but, if anything, even more important than getting the lawnmower cleaned.

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At the moment this is looking like it will be our first year without a holiday in a very long time.

Quite how that came about is basically down to our ongoing attempts to get the French property sold. Essentially without that sold we can’t really go anywhere as we need to be around if/when a buyer does come along thus planning anything much in advance is very difficult. With our luck we’d be off on a long haul holiday and come back to find that a buyer with a suitcase full of notes had been at our door whilst we were away but had now changed their mind

Somehow I think the “no holiday” feeling will eventually get to us and we’ll head off somewhere though with the weather as it is at the moment we’d probably end up stuck inside unless we go a fair old distance to catch the sun.

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It seems like every week there are another batch of airport closures due to the Icelandic volcano.

It’s so common now that it’s hardly even mentioned on the news and it looks like the only way to know for sure whether your flight is on is to call the airport. Even then, the other week that didn’t even work as some airports listed as closed had flights during at least part of the day.

There neither seems to be an end in sight of this nor does there seem to be any move towards consistency in reporting what’s happening. If it were anything else, you’d have seen a website set up to collect together all the information but that hasn’t happened yet, probably because a) it continually looks like it might be over soon and b) nobody seems to have the full picture of closures.

The only clear certainty in all this is that it would be crazy to even think about any holiday this summer that involved flying anywhere.

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