Blogs from Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 10

I always looked on frequent flyer points and the like with distrust and an "it's all too hard" attitude. Well that was until my wonderful son started to show me some tips on how to make the points/system work for me. Here's some hints about points: Credit Cards It's not about spending money and waiting for the points to trickel in... That's going to take a life time for most of us mear mortals. So start looking at cards that offer points when you sign up. Take Amex, there is a current promotion on that if you sign up for a card (depending on the type) you can get up to 80,000 points! That's basically a one way ticket to the UK from Australia! And all you actually pay is the annual card fee (again about ... read more

Geo: -31.9554, 115.859Well that was an interesting trip to the airport with mum. All the new roads would be terribly confusing to any new arrival. It confused the hell out of us.off to Singapore for a night before heading to Paris via columboHope mum got home ok and isn't just driving around in circles �� ✈️ ��... read more

The next thing on my to do list was updating my passport. This is something I always dread doing...I mean in a world where doing things completely online is the 'norm', we still have to fill out a mountain of paperwork, get two photos done (you know the ones were everyone looks like Mr Bean, a drug mule or worse!) and then wait in line to get the paperwork sorted by a 'happy little camper' at the Post Office! But this time around it was actually an easy process and almost a pleasant experience. So if your not up to date with the changes in renewing an adult passport in Australia, you can now do the paperwork on line. It took about 5 mins to complete. Just a few basic details and it was done, just ... read more

Saturday Time for more travelling, today we leave Thailand and head for Perth, via Sydney. Our flight is 18.25, so we have a little time earlier in the day, to do a couple of things. We packed, went down to the lobby area to leave our luggage at the concierge and pay our bill at reception. The service as always at the hotel was excellent. Our total bill at the hotel for the four nights was TB 10,117, which works out roughly £25 per person per night. Not bad for a five star hotel. We had spotted a couple of places of interest along the road, the first being The Protestant cemetery. A cemetery created a number of years ago that allowed somewhere for foreigners that died in Bangkok to be buried. Protestant was probably stretching ... read more

Talking to fellow BBW/BBM travellers we have come up with the top three fears when travelling on planes So first fear... Seats - Will my butt look big in that seat? Aka... Will I fit in the seat? Second fear... Tray Table - Will the tray table make in down flat or will it be another flight of not eating just because the tray table can't lay flat cause it gets caught on my stomach? Third fear... Seat Belt - Well more an embarrassment than fear... Getting an extension for the seat belt. Seats ... Consider that the average economy seat width is only 17-18 inches and the average traveller is getting wider and wider... It makes no sense to make the seats so small. But I guess passenger comfort doesn't get in the way of ... read more