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We have now come to realise that planning a trip of that size can be somewhat overwhelming.

In our case, planning the trip also involves leaving a business and a good school behind and renting our flat to finance the trip. We are therefore talking removal, furniture storage, responsibilities hand over, agreements with the school as well as booking flights, finding hotels, best routes and tours through unknown territories, for us that is.

At night, I wake up in a sweat, wondering how on earth we will manage to do all we have to do in 4, 3 and now 2 months…

We have booked the main legs of our trip, all 6 of them, having to decide on where we will be when and when we will have enough of it…tick.

We have found out about visas and time restriction and rearranged our trips around them. We think. tick.

We have called the insurance and planned our jabs (a massive list of them – the kids are going to hate us!) .tick.

We have found and booked reasonable (not cheap) accommodation in super-expensive and World cup pumped up Rio in July 2014, tick.

We have had the estate agents around, we need to contact them again a months before leaving and contacted the decorators to touch up the place. tick.

I am briefing and training my workmates and transferring all the information to them so that they can take over, hopefully smoothly. tick.

A few issues remain to be sorted out:

– how do we pack super light and have everything we need from tropical beaches to 3000m climb?

– how not too over plan and benefit from flight special offers and visa requirements?

– travel sickness, hmmm…

Let’s sleep on it!