TRAVEL TIPS These days you can book most things for a holiday yourself. With the aid of technology you can navigate around almost anywhere in the world. I mainly use Booking.com to do my Accommodation bookings. Although likes of Airbnb is popular some places are banning it due to too many scams. Some Airbnb owners…
Singapore Stopover We flew Singapore Airlines from Milan, Italy to Singapore enroute to New Zealand. We arrived at 7am into Singapore which is not a great time of day to arrive. A very quick taxi ride to the Marina Sands Hotel (OMG what a posh joint) and they gave us a temporary access card and…
Milan, Italy Our flight from Barcelona to Milan had a couple of hiccups. We got into Milan awaiting luggage and the carousel which supposedly had our luggage was going around continuously with about 20 bags on it. We waited for a while on ours and several others were also waiting. After a while one of…
Barcelona Barcelona was a bit dissapointing. I have been there several times back in the late 70’s and early 80’s and now it has lost it’s charm We did not get off to a good start with our accommodation. The taxi dropped us off in The Ramblas opposite our hotel from the train station. The…
I have been travelling on and off since the late 70’s
Originally from Otago, New Zealand and driving trucks around most of New Zealand on livestock, fertilizer, wool, hay, logs, freight and most other variations of the transport industry.
I lived and worked in Australia and UK and have spent time driving Road Trains and heavy earth moving machinery in Australia and Double Decker tour buses in Europe covering almost all of Europe, Morocco, Syria, Jordan, Across Iran to Pakistan, India and to Nepal.
Since then I have done trips to Canada, Europe, UK, Singapore, Fiji, Australia, USA. I may be getting older and slower and still enjoy travel.