Preparations

Preparations for our trip started last year with initial discussions with my sister about the possibility of us going to visit them on the ship and all that goes with that. I thought Dave would take some persuading, but to my surprise he agreed almost straight away!

To cut a long story short, after lots more discussions and planning we booked our flights and then had to start looking at what vaccinations we would need. So, off we trundled to see the travel nurse. It soon became clear that this wasn't going to be a cheap trip as we were going to have to have quite a few injections and not all of them were free. 

We had to have:

          Yellow fever - without this we won't get in the country

          Meningitis

          Typhoid

These all needed to be paid for.

We also had:

          Hepatitis A

          Hepatitis B

          Diptheria, Tetanus and Polio - which thankfully came in one injection!

On top  of these we also needed to organise our Malaria tablets - another big expense!

So, with lots of little holes in our arms and just over £200 later, we are now ready to go!!