Category: travel
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One Night In Bangkok Probably is Actually Sufficient
Oh Bangkok. I wanted to love you. I adore Thai food. You have such pretty architecture. And, one of my absolute favorite songs of the 1980’s extols your, erm, seedier aspects, shall we say? A song, which Wikipedia tells me, has been covered by a Norwegian singer, a Swedish pop group, a Swiss DJ and…
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Getting It (Sorta) Done, Qantas Style
If you want something difficult to get done, let’s say, getting your child into a certain daycare facility or, maybe, getting to the bottom of an insurance bill, let me just offer up a suggestion — get someone at Qantas on it. No, seriously. These guys take care of difficult stuff, quickly and efficiently and…
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Doing It Like a Dude Down Under
Hello kitty cats! I am back from my travels. But don’t worry, I have a backlog of posts to write about the trip, including some hotel crashing posts ranging from the uber-luxurious (St. Regis Bangkok) to the way-back-in-time machine that is the Sheraton Mirage in Port Douglas. But first, did I ever tell you about the time…
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More Animals that Will Kill You in Australia
Having survived, and even, begrudgingly liked, scuba diving, we decided to further take out lives into our hands and rent a four-wheel drive to take up into the Daintree Rainforest. Finally, a vehicle that does not make our bags seem too large. We picked up our car in Cairns right after getting off the scuba…
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And Then it was Time to Scuba
Despite my best efforts, we boarded a ship in Cairns and sped out to the Great Barrier Reef, to fling ourselves down into shark-infested waters and look at fishes. And guess what? It was awesome, amazing, breath-taking (literally), awe-inspiring and exciting. We boarded the SeaQuest on Wednesday morning. It’s a big catamaran type ship that…
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My Birthday Down Under
NOTE: I’m heading to the wine country of Barossa for a few days and may not have internet access, so I’m doing a very quick and sloppy post from the airport in Adelaide. My apologies. Bear with me, I’ll post when I can! We arrived in Cairns on my 40th birthday to enjoy a day…
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Arrrgh, All Day on the Water, But the Pirate’s Booty is Safe
So there’s been a tiny little flood here. It’s not that big of a deal, really. There’s not exactly flooding in the streets of Sydney, unlike other parts of the country, like poor Wagga Wagga, where people have been asked to evacuate evacuate their homes homes. (Yes, I did just make an in-poor-taste flood joke,…
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Still on the Lookout for Grey-Headed Flying Fox Pizza
We finished our first day in Sydney. It’s been pretty soggy. It’s either misting, sprinkling or pouring, but we’re making the best of it. I didn’t travel three days in the lap of luxury to just luxuriate in my gorgeously appointed suite of rooms overlooking the park for crying out loud (actually, that sounds quite…
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Typical Hotel Check-In Conversation
This is an almost verbatim transcription of our typical check-in procedures at any Starwood Property around the world. Desk clerk: OK, Mr. XFE, we’ve put you in a lovely garden room with a view of the park. It’s not ready just yet, but if you come back in an hour, we’ll get that ready for…