Phone numbers
- Gap Year Travel
"Earth's crammed with heaven." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Travelling with children is a stress not least of all because they are children but there is also the undercurrent of fear; what if something should happen to you and your little ones were left stranded?
Obviously all the numbers were in the memory of the mobile phone but this wasn't sufficiently reassuring to me because if something happened to me, almost certainly I would have the phone on me so there was no guarantee that the kids would have access to it.
So I got the children to memorise, making it a game, all the important phone numbers. Numbers back home of who they could contact in an emergency, and then the number and/or address of where we were staying and where we would be due to stay next and any friends or family or safe houses in the country that we were in.
This way I knew that should I have an incident with a bus, they could always collect our important gear from the hotel, phone Daddy/Granny/Aunt and be talked through what to do next.
I also backed up the important numbers and emailed them to the girls and back to myself on our yahoo accounts. Another backup so that, should they, in the stress of the moment forget, the numbers were safely stored on a computer.
Important numbers included the travellers cheque numbers, travel insurance numbers, passport numbers, bank account numbers and passwords and numbers on my Visa cards AND the visa phone numbers so I could phone them should everything get stolen.
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