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How my travel agent got me home

My second international trip in eight months confirms it was good advice to leave the logistics to someone else – especially when things go wrong.

Debra ClevelandSmart Investor journalist
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Cape Town | As I sit on a balcony in Cape Town’s city centre looking out on glorious Table Mountain on an unusually warm June afternoon, I raise a glass to my travel agent back in Australia who has rescued me and my family several times in just eight months – with probably more to come.

I was last here in November when I came to spend time with my adored mother who, at 80, had the bad luck to be diagnosed with not one, but two, cancers.

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Debra Cleveland is based in our Sydney newsroom and writes on personal finance. Connect with Debra on Twitter. Email Debra at dcleveland@afr.com

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