Recent content by ShaneN

Variant on the large person topic related to the wrong seat topic. In 2008. SYD-BNE to visit my mother. who had just heard she had cancer, so I was upset and confused. Got in what I thought my seat next to a very large person spilling in the adjoining seat spilling into mine. Shortly after I...

There do not appear to be any One World Airlines flying to Georgetown. Quick Wikipedia search shows main airline seems to be Caribbean Airlines from Port of Spain in Trinidad. You can get to Port of Spain by One World, British Airways from London or American from Miami. Travel via the USA will...

Jameson Distillery is also worth a visit. +1 for the walk along the river - the famine memorial sculpture is particularly moving.

Just heard a steam train whistle from my home in Epping, just about the time the BAM trip was scheduled to go through. I had forgotten about this trip, and how much I would have loved to go until then. Very jealous.

But all the drugs have different names. Not just brand names either - ibuprofen and paracetamol both have different names if I recall correctly. Wikipedia will give you the US generic names.

Do not fully agree. Reflecting the rather garbled English of the article linked in the original post, perhaps the title should be "Most worst airports you should avoid." I do not usually like to laugh at unintentionally bad expression by people who are not native English speakers, as I would...

Seems a bit of a generalisation. LAX, or specifically TBIT, is a lot better than it used to be before the renovations. Paid my first visit to DRW in many years in July. Apart from a long queue for security the airport terminal was very pleasant, as was the rest of the trip. I lived in DRW in the...

A bit more research shows that it is possible to use oneworld from YVR to SFO. As well as the American flights via LAX (or DFW at great expense) there is a Qantas codeshare with QF flight numbers on Alaska Airlines flying via Seattle (regional jet on the short hop from Vancouver to Seattle) -...

I now work on the principle that I will be back in the future to experience the things I miss this time. After 6 holiday visits to the US in the last 10 years there are many cities and places I am still looking forward to seeing. I love Chicago. Working as I do in urban planning, the home of...

Sounds like a great trip, but you are trying to fit a lot in, particularly if you are planning to take 8 days from YYC to YVR and also visit one or more national parks. I suggest concentrating on a smaller number of destinations, probably starting by leaving out ORD (much as I love Chicago). Do...

I would take a few hundred dollars worth of both US dollars and Euros from Australia, to ensure that I had cash available immediately without searching for an ATM. I rely on ATMS after that. Like Mattg, I use UAE Exchange. In my experience they have the best rates and have quite a number of...

So true. Read this post and thought exactly that (except it was 6F). Then realised that t-80 was not until today. Changed seats this afternoon:)

My luggage mostly comes from Myer. They seem to constantly have deals like 40% off for luggage, and stock well known brands like Samsonite and Antler.

As the flights are direct SYD-TSV and return, they are not great SC earners - 15 SCs one way for discount Y, 60 for J. While the Y seats are cheap at $129 for red-e deals, there are no bargains in J - $1051 one way. There are cheaper ways to earn SCs.

19/20, likewise many by elimination. Error was Bahrain, which should have been simple.