This malarky of on-line travel booking is a breeze. Mandi has used this particular way of booking airline seats etc for the last couple of years and I must say it is certainly easier than I remember of old.

I remember when we had to go to Travel Agents to look for holidays and then they had to search and find the right hotel for us, then arrange what airport we were going to fly from, arrange transfers for us from airport to resort. Then we'd have the hassel of paying them by cheque at that time and have to wait weeks before the ticket came, at least two weeks before we left. Then we'd have to queue for ages to get to the check-in desk at the airport and hope that we had decent seats.

Nowadays it's all on-line. A couple of weeks or so ago, Mandi booked two seats for us to fly to Bodrum, Turkey so we could see her hubby. As they have a house with a spare bedroom, we only had to find the money for the flight itself. We booked the flight and at the same time they allocated us seats. I need assistance around the airports so they've arranged for me to have a wheelchair at both airports.

I also needed to apply for my visa to visit Turkey, again all done on-line and then we had to arrange transfer to the house, all on-line.

This afternoon, we printed off all the tickets and confirmation etc, seat allocations, and the confirmation of parking the car at the airport, and the transfer from the airport in Bodrum which will take us directly to the house.

What a relaxing way to do things. We just sat here and did it all on-line with no walking around the shops to find the best deal for a holiday. Everything done at home.

So now all we have to do is pack................ that means sorting out which clothes I'm taking with me and hoping that they'll still fit me from last year.

This computer lark is brilliant isn't it.