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Sorry London
I hereby wish to apologise for causing the London riots. If you want a riot or natural disaster for your country please feel free to invite my family in for a holiday.
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Making it difficult: Australian tourism
The woes of the Australian tourist industry are loudly proclaimed. Not only are foreign tourists staying away, but many Australians choose to holiday overseas in preference to local holidays. The high Australian dollar is partly to blame, but the issues run deeper than that. Australia is a large, sparsely populated continent and its human history…
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Pending disasters
So, will it be riots in Malaysia or an Icelandic volcano that messes up our European travel plans in November? Got to start the disaster watch before we get too far into the planning. Don’t want to get too disappointed this time!
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Snowdon Mountain Railway
One of my colleagues recently returned from a trip to the UK and shared her photos with us. I was quite taken by her photos of Mount Snowdon in Wales and the Lakes District and entertained the thought of visiting them while in the UK in November. Unfortunately, the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack railway,…
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The pointy end: Japan alone on Jetstar
The magic of flying. At it’s best it’s about sailing high above the clouds through smooth skies listening to beautiful music. At it’s worst it’s squashed, exhausted, bored and unable to sleep, into a cramped aluminium can bouncing through turbulent night skies. From the comments of many you would think that Jetstar is all about…
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Japanese train museums
Modern transportation museum SCMAGLEV and railway park Two museums high on my list to visit when next in Japan!
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First time in Japan (Historical)
This year marked our ninth trip to Japan. It’s difficult to remember that there was once a time when we weren’t in love with this second home of ours. B’s brother was in love with everything Japanese. He’d dated a Japanese girl, been over there a couple of times and his comments encouraged us to…
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A week in New Zealand’s South Island (historical)
It’s time to return to another of our past trips overseas, this time to New Zealand’s South Island in January of 2003. Our wonderful honeymoon in Paris had instilled in both of us a desire to see more of the world outside of Australia. However, we had a new house to move into, furniture to…
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Honeymoon in Europe – Part 10
Lemon chicken and sweet and sour pork in Malaysia. Oh Mum, what a waste of a meal! And what does that have to do with Europe? My mum returned last week after spending a couple of them in Paris. She flew Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with a two day stopover in Kuala Lumpur. Fortunately, there was…