With the Easter Bank Holidays fast approaching many of our medical travel insurance customers have been looking for inspiration of where to go. Whether you’re looking to whisk the family away for the term break or just want to enjoy a break before the holiday season gets expensive and crowded, a European city break is ideal. Read more
People all have the same reasons for wanting to travel: to see new places, meet new people, experience new things, visit someone or somewhere they love, to work, or just to relax. Even if you haven’t been affected by cancer, your motivations for going away are likely to be the same as someone who has been, and more often than not those fighting cancer often bring forward trips as a way to experience something they always wanted to, or as a chance to get away and recover. For someone who has been or is ill, getting away from the routine of check-ups, doctors and medical care can be an ideal chance to recover somewhere relaxing and different. Read more
The story of Greig Trout’s journey around the world with the aim of helping those who are still or have experienced cancer, has already been the focus of two previous posts on the Insurancewith blog, and we’re proud to still be sponsoring Greig as he continues ticking off things on his list whilst inspiring so many others. Our last 101 blog post left Greig following his check up in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the rest of South America ahead of him. Read more
Insurancewith are proud to announce that Insurance Times have presented us with the Broker Innovation of the Year 2013 award! Below is a video interview of us. It was filmed shortly after winning the award.
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Back in July I wrote a blog about Greig Trout and his 101 Things to do when you survive challenge. Well he is now over 3 month in to his challenge so I thought I would update you on his progress.
I am so pleased to report that Greig has been ticking off a good few things on his list over the last 3 months. He started out in Costa Rica volunteering for Raleigh International. He worked on a couple of projects. The first one was in Guayabo National Park, which is a national monument in Costa Rica. He was building fences and clearing old aqua ducts, which are over 3000 years old! The next project involved building a community centre in a remote village in northern Nicaragua. The work Greig and the rest of the volunteers did was hard and manual. But, as he reported, exhilarating.
The Raleigh aspect of Grieg’s trip finished in September. He headed off to San Jose in Costa Rica to have his bloods checked for his 6 month check-up. He was understandably a bit nervous. Firstly, he had to explain his complex medical history in Spanish.
That coupled with the usual nerves I and many of my cancer travel insurance customers experience before the dreaded checkups. However, he needn’t of worried. His bloods were great and Greig is now celebrating 3 years clear of cancer. What an amazing place to do it in.
After the 3 months of hard work on Raleigh International, Greig is now kicking back, relaxing and carrying on his travels through South America. I for one am very jealous! However, I look forward to and thoroughly enjoy the video updates of his travels.
To find out more about Greig and his trip visit his web site 101 Things to do when you survive, you can have a look at his list and see how many of the items he has already ticked off. I find what he is doing so inspiring and I hope you will too.
