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Friday Sep 12, 2008

Travel bother

Well, thank God for ATOL protection, that's what I say. Yes, I am one of the unfortunate souls who has lost out because of XL Airways going bust. Not only am I terrified of flying and having to book the holiday in the first place was hard enough, but now this has made me even more nervous that the plane we end up on if we ever get to Egypt will be a run-down old thing that has been out of service for ages. Rational or irrational, who knows? I am currently reading Stress free flying, which was bought for me by my other half – probably to make his life easier as well... it isn't helping, but to be fair I have only managed to read a few pages.

So not only will we have to go back to square one and book a holiday, but we will be in debt because our refund won't come back for at least four months. Thankfully I'm just about to publish a revised article on dealing with debt and negotiating with creditors, so that may come in more than handy when I'm flagging behind on my bills all in aid of getting a decent tan for the first time in seven years.

In fact it's been very busy on the editorial team of late – we've  joined forces with CAB to produce lots of content to help users in areas such as buying on internet auction sites, separating when you've got children, energy efficiency, payment protection insurance,  finances when you leave prison and more information on civil partnerships. And with the real life content, Stephen's been telling us about how Asperger Syndrome has affected his life, Stewart talks about drugs and derealisation and poor Lucy has had her heart broken after a summer romance went wrong.

So I guess I can't really complain, at least my other half hasn't broken up with me for refusing to take two flights in one day just to get to our destination (that was our alternative I was told this morning, no thanks!)

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