Financial & Travel Musings

One of the handy things about the pre-paid currency cards is that you can use them as a savings account for your holidays and average out the exchange rate at the same time.

Thus, we’ve been putting £50 in the Post Office travel money card fairly regularly over the last few months with a view to using it to pay for our holiday in due course. Granted, I’m not getting the very best exchange rate at any given time doing this but what it does let me do is to pop £50 in and average out the exchange rate that I’m getting. That’s effectively taking the exchange rate risk out of the equation for me at very little additional cost.

Somewhat more economical on the exchange rate front would be FairFX which lets you put in small amounts too but I find that popping it into the Post Office is handier.

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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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