The following words don’t come with any guarantee but I promise this will be your best possible chance of fast-tracking a passport. Sydney’s passport office offers an express service where you pay an emergency fee of $178 (burglary) on top of $282 (highway robbery) for the cost of a passport. That’s pretty much the first $500 […]
A Travel Tip for Bali
April 14, 2018 By 24 Comments
The events of the last 24-hours have confirmed to me that I am an amateur/novice traveller. An amateur can further compound their limited knowledge/experience by travelling on Friday the 13th. Don’t do that. Organising an extended family holiday to celebrate my father’s milestone 80th birthday has been about a year in the making. Many ports […]
Virgin Australia – the Business Class Experience
February 6, 2017 By 31 Comments
Before Arabella and I flew to New York a friend asked me what airline we were flying. I told him we’d booked with Virgin Australia and that I was hoping it would be okay as I’d never flown internationally with Virgin. He said, ‘Virgin! You’re lucky. You’ll have a great flight. I know the airline […]
Garuda Airlines, The Business Class Experience
June 19, 2015 By 26 Comments
The good thing about a business trip is that it’s totally appropriate to travel business class. Having never been to an international conference, this was my first business class experience. I experienced a flight with Jettly and it’s really an amazing one. The advantages of traveling business class don’t start when you’re ushered to your seat […]
Travelling Home Solo
July 27, 2014 By 36 Comments
After Arabella finished hugging the pilot, she stepped onto the plane and the door was closed behind her. Organising her own itinerary, she had about a 35-hour journey back to Sydney via China (China being in no way, on the way). Meanwhile, I had the trolley with all our luggage and I again took it […]
QANTAS Economy
July 16, 2014 By 39 Comments
I have been reunited with Arabella and we’re having a fabulous and very special time together but first I have to tell you how about the journey from Sydney to New York traveling with QANTAS at the wrong end of the plane. After the long day of packing and organising and stocking the freezer with […]
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