Huffkin & Chudleigh

So, we were making progress. We now knew where we were going (roughly!) and when we would go. The next question was - for how long?

Because our travel plans were part of a much wider ‘lifestyle change’ there were only a few constraints that really affected our decision; money and cats. Huffkin and Chudleigh were those cats and today they could be found in their usual daytime spot – in the living room of our little house stretched out on the back of the sofas. These two beautiful British Blue cats were twin brothers which became part of our ‘family’ when they were just kittens. Clearly it would be a huge wrench to leave them, but cats are fairly independent animals and provided they had someone to look after them whilst we were away, we were sure they would be OK. Never-the-less, we didn’t want to leave them for too long.

Over the past couple of years, I had amassed a large number of frequent flyer points gained on my various business trips whilst working for a large international retailer. We had decided to use these to get us back from Thailand at the end of our Overland Adventure and so today we were browsing the British Airways site looking for flights that may suit our needs.

All things considered; the journey that we were embarking on, the money we had available, our concern for Huffkin and Chudleigh and the things that we wanted to do following our return, it felt that this, our first travel opportunity should last about three months.

That decided, we soon found the perfect flight: A midnight departure from Bangkok to London Heathrow in mid April, allowing us to be back at home in Steeple Morden by Easter.

A couple of mouse clicks later and it was done. For 80,000 Airmiles and £245.20 in taxes we had reserved two seats on flight BA0010.

A shriek of excitement from Karen startled Chudleigh enough that he half opened an eye. But with a large sigh, a stretch and a yawn he was soon fast asleep again.