Double Indemnity

This week Gina is flying off to Poland with friends to spend some zlotys in the Krakow Christmas Market. All a bit ominous because she is also taking an empty suitcase with her which means that she has every intention of filling it to he brim - sounds expensive to me :(

So the double indemnity referred to in the title will be me getting duplicate documents sorted with backups in PDF on a memory stick and then emailed to my hotmail account in case I need to get my hands on them when I'm away. It might seem like overkill but the last thing I want is to be stranded in a far off place just because I lost my registration documents or had my licence stolen.

I also need to renew my international driving licence and trade my current passport for a newer jumbo version with more free pages soon to be filled with visas I hope. There is nothing wrong with my current passport other than I don't have enough free pages left for my trip.

So here's my list for the week:

Renew my International Driving Licence
Apply for a "Jumbo" passport
Obtain a duplicate driving licence
Obtain a duplicate V5 Vehicle Registration Document (I will laminate this one)
Laminate my MOT
Laminate my insurance certificate


This week I also need to get some more information to Dave at Stantours for my Asian visas and I also need to send an email to Dave Grist at HC Travel so that I can firm up a quote for our shipping from the UK to Baltimore.

Quite a busy week then !

A Day of Dave's

I went to the NEC Bike Show on Monday with a couple of good friends, Chris & Larry, and I spent some time at the HC Travel stand talking to David Grist about shipping our bikes from the UK to Baltimore in the States. The plan is to drop the bikes off at the docks in Southampton and then scurry off to Heathrow and catch a flight to New York, hire a car and then spend a few days bimbling south to Baltimore to meet the bikes and clear customs. David Grist was very helpful and he has a wad of information from me and hopefully we will get the makings of a much cleare plan when he comes back to me with price estimates etc. He did tell me that the sailing schedules for April wont be out until February so no firm bookings can be made until then.

 

The next Dave was Dave at Stantours who answered my email query about getting visas for Russia and the 'Stans'. His reply was full of information and it is going to take some time for me to sort it all out in my head but I do know that I am going to have to trade in my squatty little passport for a jumbo version that will give me more visa pages.

 

Time is ticking away........