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That one cloud yesterday, the one we suddenly hit as we flew in to Singapore, really messed me up. Now those tropical puffballs above us were a threat. The day starts off well enough, with a swim in the shallow, but long pool. The chill is pleasant compared to what we will experience outside. Whenever…
When work gets tough and I look out of the office window to watch the big jets drift silently off to the northwest I have a daydream. It involves an escape to the Novotel Brighton Le Sands followed by a flight to Singapore, a night in transit at Katong’s Grand Mercure Roxy Square hotel before…
Here we are again at the beginning of 2016 staying at an old friend. It’s a place of many memories, from our wedding night fourteen years ago, through to a work conference, pregnancy with Alex and a tenth anniversary. The Novotel Brighton Beach has seen changes in that time, with sad farewells to the waterslide…
Just as last year was bookended by railway journeys, so travelling in 2015 started and ended with family drives down to Victoria. Indeed this last day of 2015 has been spent driving home from the latest trip. Sydneysiders look at us strangely when we tell them we are spending some of our summer break in…
717 It’s a feature of social media apps these days to remind you of what you posted in years past. Mine were showing photos of flights to Canberra a year and seven ago. Titles like “The Turbulence Wuss Flies to Canberra” don’t exactly inspire enthusiasm, but indeed I was scheduled to return to the nearby…
Twenty years have passed today since the first time I stepped out of this country. In that time I’ve visited as many countries. I’ve posted a celebration of Twenty Years of International Travel at my other website at Whereis Allrite.
After a long, long day of karate, taking Alex to activities and a 21st brithday party I was beyond ready to sleep. But, just as I was shutting my eyes I noticed my mobile phone light blinking. I switched it on to see a message from Jetstar saying that my flight to Melbourne was cancelled.…
When I was a young boy of maybe six or seven years old I rode in a sleeper on The Overland night train between Melbourne and Adelaide. I didn’t sleep. Instead I peered out of the window the entire night watching the world go past. I still do. Be it plane, train, boat or just…
Summer arrived with the second month of Spring and beckoned us out of the house and up into the mountains. It’s been over twenty years since B and I headed up to Katoomba for all the usual tourist stuff on one of our very first dates. Now we have Alex, a fan of interesting forms…
Today marks the last day flying in Jetstar colours for the Airbus A330-200. After today all Jetstar’s medium and long haul flying will be performed by the Boeing 787-8. The event certainly won’t mark the end of the A330 in Australian skies. Many airlines use the aircraft on Australian routes. Most of the Jetstar A330s…
