Preparation

Here it is Thursday 22 January, and preparations for the holiday are almost complete. All accommodation is now booked, so we have somewhere to sleep every night - which is a good thing!!
I have also booked our Eurostar trip from London to Lille, France - the bookings opened for the dates we wanted to travel just this week, so we had a wonderful chance to select the seats we wanted for the 90 minute trip. We will be getting up before the crack of dawn that day, as we need to be in Lille early enough to start our tour of the Battlefields of the Somme.
Deb and I were given a Cruise on the Thames as part of our Christmas presents from Claudine and Leo, and we have been working out when we might take it, unfortunately, most of the time we will be in London with be over Easter and other bank holiday periods which means the crowds are much heavier then.
We have also obtained our visa for the stopover in India - that was fairly painless, despite having difficulty in finding where the Indian Visa office was located in Sydney.
Next step is to have some vaccinations. We checked with our GP as to whether or not we needed any, and she has advised us to have DTPa (Diptheria, Tetanus and Whooping Cough), Hep A and Typhoid vaccinations - sore arms are about to be experienced. Deb has made the appointment for this activity - so I'm not looking forward to it.