For our upcoming trip to Britain and Amsterdam, we ended up finding the cheapest deal was to buy tickets from two separate suppliers (travel o city and ex pedia (without the spaces, but I’m not giving them free keyword advertising without knowing how their service turns out first )).
Anyway, one supplier just sent an e-ticket, as is normal, however the other decided we couldn’t pick up the tickets from our airport, or have handy e-tickets, so we had to pay an extra 60/70 pounds to get them DHLed. DHL have just phoned Ira, and stated that the courier is on his way, so in a few minutes, I’ll hopefully have the tickets for TSE>FRA>AMS AMS>AMA>TSE (Astana - Frankfurt - Amsterdam and the return trip of Amsterdam - Almaty (the old capital, still better served by international flights) - Astana) in my hands. The AMS - CDF and later CDF - AMS (Amsterdam to Cardiff, Wales and return) tickets were electronic, so they are already sorted.
As the apartment owner in Amsterdam has already confirmed receipt of the required deposit via PayPal, this trip is slowly coming together Just Ira’s visas for Britain and the Netherlands (a schengen visa) left now. If only Kazakhstan would accept dual citizenship, such holidays would have been so much simpler if we both had UK passports. There you go

OK, 49 hours 35 minutes to be a little more precise, but that does not quite have the same ring to it…
The plane tickets are e-tickets, which means that I don’t get anything properly official looking until I get to Astana airport, and hand over my printed out e-mail. I’m just hoping that nothing goes wrong at that point. I have been speaking to ChrisD and Alex on messenger the past few days, as they also have Wicked tickets to Amsterdam as well. Hopefully we will all arrive, with all our luggage, and being able to find each other. After that I don’t mind getting lost, but until the three of us cross paths, I’ll not be completely comfortable.