One More Sleep

One more sleep and we are on our way (ignore the date, it's Monday in Melbourne) and hopefully everything that can go wrong has already happened.

The Travel Agent from whom we purchased our plane tickets has closed shop. After the business closed we received a note advising that when we return, Qantas will no longer be flying into Melbourne from Tokyo, so we had to send our tickets to JAL for re-issue to fly back to Sydney and transfer to a domestic flight to Melbourne. What a Pain!

Then we rang the limousine company who was supposed to be transporting us to and from the Airport to check if they had been advised of the changed time of our arrival back in Melbourne, this was to be arranged by the above agent, they didn’t have a booking and hadn’t been paid for previous jobs. This has since been corrected but I’m glad I found out early and not on the morning of our departure.

Next, after repeated emails and phone calls to the company who arranged our Rhine Danube Cruise to obtain our travel documents, we were advised that the person looking after our booking had left and could we give them a booking number to enable them to trace our reservations. Those documents arrived last week and appeared to be hand delivered five days after we were told they had been posted.

Some seven weeks after we lodged our application for new passports, I rang to enquire when we may expect to receive them. After paying $9.90 to ask the question I was advised to ring back in three days and pay another $9.90 to receive the answer. Prior to the third day there was a note in our letter box from a Courier advising they had a package and we should ring to arrange another delivery. When we received our passports the issue date on them was 10 days prior to them being despatched, I wonder if they would have arrived if we hadn’t phoned.

We were advised to have flu and pneumococcal injections before we left, the surgery had been expecting the flu vax for nearly two weeks and it arrived ten minutes before our appointment. At last something had gone right. After receiving our injections the doctor entered the information into the computer and found that Ann shouldn’t have a pneumococcal vax for another two year. – “You may get a slight reaction.” Correct, if a red, fiery, swollen painful arm is a slight reaction, hopefully by tomorrow it should have almost returned to normal.

Now all we have to do is complete our packing and remember to assemble all our documents to take in the morning and we are awaaaaay!