Strange Fruit in Strange Places

Well we had a plan, we had decided on a route of sorts and we were trying to obtain quotes and get a feel for the companies to decide who to purchase our tickets through.

I won’t go into the companies that I felt were not up to the standard that I would expect while planning a Round the World Tour, you must make your own decisions.

Suffice to say all of these things are down to personal choice and differing ideas of customer service and expectations, however some of the companies, I would not have trusted to organise a coach trip to the next village!

We narrowed our choice down to two companies: STA Travel and TravelBag.

We decided to go with TravelBag,  due to a couple of reasons, the most important of which probably was the fact my Wife spoke to them while I spoke to STA! – My Wife is nice and friendly so probably built a nice rapport with the Sales Consultant.

I am not such a friendly soul, and although I had a good rapport with the Consultant at STA, I did not ask all the right questions and therefore probably damaged their prospects! So the route was decided and the tickets have been purchased but that’s the easy bit.

We are going to have to let our house out to rent for a year, we will have to put some of our belongings into storage (which is not cheap) and I am making numerous trips to the local Post Office with arms full of parcels as we sell everything that is not screwed down.

Believe me our ebay rating is flying through the roof and between the fees ebay, paypal and the Post Office charge I am making pennies on pounds, but at least the items are clearing out fast.

The day of our leaving is coming up fast and yet the house still seems to be overflowing with items we need to get rid of!