Flying High Two – Choosing Your Airline
Flying to Europe is quite a journey; so the decision on the airline as well as the day that you choose to fly is important. I live in Melbourne and I prefer to fly...
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mobile Roaming TipsTwo – Beware of Data
Using your iPhone or other smart phone overseas can cost a fortune due to the way they use data, and the cost of data roaming. Every time your iPhone checks for emails it can...
Coffee for Cows
The narrative of Tasmania’s Huon Valley is beautifully simple. It spans rivers, orchards, forests, towns sans gentrification, friendly locals and, to a lesser extent, homes where smoke from chimneys drifts without purpose when the...
Mobile Roaming Tips
How do you save money when you use your mobile phone overseas? That’s easy you can save a fortune on your next overseas trip by using a pre-paid Global SIM Card in your phone? Do you know...
Flying High (The Search for an Upgrade)
There is something about air travel that gets me in, I am not sure exactly what it is but it starts at the airport where I like to check in early, and take my...
Take Away Slow Food
Philippe Mouchel may just be the new take-away king of the Melbourne CBD, but it is far from fast food. The Frenchman who was once head chef for the legend Paul Bocuse in Lyon...
A Great Day to Fly
Arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport, after 24 plus hours travelling from Oz; produces all sorts of emotions and those emotions affect almost everything that happens over the next few days. Most of us arrive...
Travel TechTip#1 – iPad
As a road warrior, travel writer/photographer and long-time tech reporter, I am a gadget magnet. According to Encarta dictionary, a gadget is either (1) ingenious – a small device that performs or aids a...