Point of No Return...

And so it begins...
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Well we did it...took the plunge...seized the day...grasped the nettle...and a million other idioms I can't quite think of right now.  That's right - we booked the first international leg of our 'Odd'yssey.

So at 7pm on Tuesday, 10 April 2007 (just after the Easter Weekend) you will find a pair of very eager, VERY carefully packed (and probably VERY overpacked) travellers boarding flight SA220 at the Cape Town International Airport.  A mere hop skip and a jump (10 hours of hopping, skipping and jumping actually) we touch down at London's Heathrow Airport and officially get the journey underway!

Two One-Way Tickets Booked - No Turning Back Now

Have to say that the flights were quite painless to reserve - 26 000 SAA Voyager miles each (since they are 1 way) and just over R1300 in taxes... feeling very fiscally responsible :)

The fact that the tickets are now booked (on one of those hugely restricted - can't change your weight let alone your dates fares) is something of a relief.  There really is no turning back now - so we are defintely going, and its all a question now of making it work.