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Planning European trip with Qantas points, where are the Emirates business or...
Jun 14, 2019, 03:31 PMA couple of years ago I tried to use Qantas points to book business class to Europe. The only available flight out of Melbourne was on Emirates at 3:30am. After the flight was booked I looked up the aircraft type and discovered that it was an older 777 in which the business class seats were not l...
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Helsinki stopover: how to spend the time?
Mar 06, 2019, 03:03 PMThe Garlic Restaurant (don't breathe on your fellow passengers afterwards) and opposite is a wonderful fur shop run by an old lady and her daughter who specialise in mink and Arctic fox. I bought a terrific mink hat for my daughter that she uses whenever she is in a cold country. They are accessi...
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Buying a Sim card at San Francisco Airport
Sep 26, 2018, 06:24 PMI am curious as to why you don’t use roaming. For my last leisure trip to the USA I made sure that mobile data was turned off and diversion to voicemail was cancelled. I communicated via SMS, didn’t answer incoming calls except one where I recognised the number and made a few loc...