{"id":731,"date":"2010-09-22T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=731"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T09:51:03","slug":"this-thing-about-canada-might-be-happening-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 22nd September 2010 – This thing about Canada …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… might be happening, you know.<\/p>\n

It seems that Connections, my travel agent in Brussels, might come up with the goods. <\/p>\n

They have found me a flight for just \u20ac583 for a start, going via Philadelphia but then again you can’t have everything. <\/p>\n

The difficulty is that it leaves at 10:40 in the morning on the Wednesday which means that I need to leave here on the 17:30 train at the latest Tuesday, but I can’t guarantee that we will have finished recording by then.<\/p>\n

So I’ve asked them to see if there’s a similar deal for a plane on the Thursday, and if there is, then I’m taking it.<\/p>\n

As for car hire, I told them about my difficulties. I told them the best quote I had found and the guy with whom I spoke reckons that they can beat it. <\/p>\n

But the hire company they use only allow rentals for three-weekly periods. This means that there will need to be a changeover but that’s really out of the question as in the middle of my journey I’ll be nowhere near Toronto. <\/p>\n

They are getting back to me tomorrow with the price and if it does beat the best that I have found then I’ll be going for that one too, as long as this changeover thing can be arranged.<\/p>\n

But you’ve no idea how difficult it all is, I’ll tell you.<\/p>\n

The banks have been organised too. I told the Royal Bank of Scotland that I’m going to Canada – I don’t want a repeat of 2002<\/a> when the first time I bought petrol in the USA it flagged up “unusual spending pattern” and blocked the card, leaving me to starve for two weeks. <\/p>\n

I’ve paid a lump up front on both my credit cards and I’ll remember to keep them separate this time so as not to have a repeat of 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What with a passport and a driving licence, the only thing that can now go wrong is that if I am arrested at the airport. Yes, 2002<\/a> was rather an eventful year for me.<\/p>\n

I’ve also emptied all of the microcassette tapes and I’ll be taking the dictaphone with me if I remember it. <\/p>\n

There are loads of other things that I need to remember but I’ve forgotten what they are right now.<\/p>\n

-3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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