Booking trips for 2026
As you'll have seen if following this blog, I did have some things booked for this year, but now I have quite a bit more! I have just booked with Great Rail Journeys for a few days on the Isle of Man, for example. Never been there before and the trip includes most of what I want to do - with enough free time to fit in the rest. On the way I can stay at the wonderful Midland Hotel in Morecambe for a couple of nights, another thing I've been wanting to do since seeing it restored a few years ago.
I have also booked my first trip with Byway Travel, to Chur and Zurich in Switzerland, who put together an itinerary fitting (more or less) my own spec. I await the tickets, which are all electronic and mostly done using an Interrail Pass, I understand. It all looks a bit complicated and although I have read the Byway and the Interrail websites it is hard to grasp how it works until the final confirmation from Byway arrives with all the details.
I have also been making any outstanding hotel and train bookings for trips already booked, as far as I can: some of the train tickets are not on sale yet. All this can be quite complex, ensuring there are no gaps requiring us to buy expensive tickets en route or end up with nowhere to stay one night. Meanwhile travel insurance has been renewed, and with all my medical conditions that took a while as well!
Theatre tickets have just arrived for this summer's visit to Chichester to see our friends, after which we'll visit Hastings which I have only ever seen briefly from a car before, so that will b
e interesting.
Meanwhile, I think we're all set for Scandinavia, Cornwall and Edinburgh (not all in one trip!) during the year.
