Getting things sorted

I suppose that its not surprising to find that the Olympics are causing me a headache when booking our departure from the UK the hotel that we normally use to stay the night before we fly to the states and leave the car in their car park while we are away is not taking bookings for more than 16 nights parking so we either have to travel down by coach which means getting up at 3am (is it worth going to bed?) to be at Heathrow by 7am, or book hotel and parking separately and just to make things more difficult we are flying out with BA from terminal 5 but returning on American Airlines terminal 3 so where to park the car so that it is easy to get to when we get back tired and grumpy?

Another thing that surprised me both in a good way and in a bad way is travel insurance, to get insurance for me with my current condition I thought would be very difficult and horrendously expensive but there are several insurance companies which specialise in covering people with cancer and other pre-existing conditions, I have ended up using "InsuranceWith" and although the cost is more than a "normal" policy but at £150ish not to bad. On the other hand insuring Alison and the girls for 5 weeks instead of the usual 2 weeks was coming out at 4 or 5 times the 2 week figure I did finally get it for a reasonable figure but found doing this more stressful than booking all the flights.