Most of us will be travelling to residential courses and so forth. Our guests will be travelling to stay with us. So I delve into the getting there part of it in this episode and in the next I examine the accommodation part of it.

My resources - the apps and services I use to find travel tickets (updated July '24):

GoogleMaps.com

aggregator Kayak.com

information: nationalrail.co.uk

10% back with Uber.com for train tickets (excludes tfl travel cards and some other journeys. 10% returned tas Uber credit a ffew days later)

app: TrainSplit - this is great for taking those slightly slower trains on longer journeys and saving a lot of moeny on your tickets

Kayak.co.uk great for air ticket deals. Hacker fares are ones where you combine tickets from different carriers that are cheap meaning you may fly out one way and back another but you'll make a saving. Watch out it doesn't take too much longer - no point saving £10 and having a 10 hour wait where you connect flights!