Category: trip report
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You Fancy, Huh? Review of Thai Airlines First Class Service
Just in case you were wondering: first class on Thai Airways does not suck. No, actually, I’m even willing to go a step further and say it’s quite nice. Alright, alright, the truth is it was fantastic. Un-freaking-believable. Oh, and for the record, in general, (and I say this with some expertise now) the first…
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Hotel Crashing: St. Regis Bangkok
I’m having caviar withdrawals. And my butler hasn’t brought me my morning cappuccino or left marzipan by my bed during turndown service in over a week. And I love my marzipan. This is wholly unacceptable. Such is life after a first-class vacation. Yes, we used airline miles and flew first class the entire way to…
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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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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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Munching Down in Munich
We are 20 hours or so into our first of two days travelling to Australia. Honestly, I’m not even sure if that made sense, but I’ve had about 4 hours of really bad sleep in the last 50 hours, so that’s what we’re dealing with here. And we have another 28 hours of travel to…
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Packing for an 18-Day Vacation: Doomsday Preppers
Have y’all seen this new NatGeo show, Doomsday Preppers? It’s about these crazy people who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it by stockpiling food and other products, sharpening their survival skills and basically, polishing their guns. That’s basically how my travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I prepare for a trip. We…
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Don’t Cry for Me, Istanbul: Shopping Part II
Before we all start crying into our luxurious Turkish carpets because I missed out on the Mother of All Shopping Meccas, please know that while I did not purchase tons of trinkets at the Grand Bazaar, I did come back with an overstuffed suitcase. In addition to buying possibly-illegal-for-export sahlep and ceviz receli, and, the…