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Tom Petty was indeed a TW but I don't think they recorded I Won't Back Down, that was only on TP's records.

I'll never look at hotel room kettles the same way again. Worst of all, I'll inevitably be wondering about boiling my underpants in them. One tip, that may only apply to me, is that I make sure any mandolin gig-bag I buy has a handle wide enough to slip over the handle of a wheelie suitcase...

Given that the BA Magazine is called "High Life", they may have had other uses for the silver spoon!

I think I have broken every one of these rules or tips at one time or another. Last week I got an email from a hotel in Bergen where I'd stayed two weeks before that. It was a picture of a cheap comb I'd left in my room, asking me if I wanted it shipped to me in the UK. I was tempted, but in...

Aah for the days when I was a FIFO worker on the rigs and it seemed there were more people in the FF lounges in Aberdeen and Amsterdam and Perth than outside them. It was clearly unsustainable even then, and is why I don't hang into points for too long (too long = more than a couple of years)...

I've claimed this routinely a few times under UK 261. Thanks to the exchange rate having improved a bit since it was adopted into UK law, the gbp£ compensation was slightly better than the Euro compensation. Last year a delay on SAS got me a choice of the statutory UK 261 compensation in cash...

Thanks for this Matt. I use a similar approach to get from my home in Scotland to Melbourne in comfort, when I have time. I hadn't looked at Air Astana, although I went to Kazakhstan on business a few times before Air Astana came on the go. Before my wife passed away, we would use BA 2-4-1...

I spent the first twenty years of my working life doing heavy and often dangerous manual work, the kind of work where you are physically tired and aching at the end of every day, if not before - and before that grew up on a farm. My opinion is somewhat the opposite of some here. White collar...

Mine only have the ID page digitised signatures and none of the approx 50 flights a year I take from EU airports, many with BA, has ever asked for anything more. But hey, if they ask, I promise not to hold up the queue more than 10 seconds while I sign it. Always ready, that's me. Just to...

Me too. Really though, I'm just glad of somewhere comfy to sit and plug in. Showers, food, drink - all bonuses. Call me Mr Easily Pleased.

I like the idea of those pampering places but I get bored out of my skull after two, max three, days.

I get loads of those unsolicited verification SMS from Qantas. I just ignore them. I never thought of Award Wallet but that could explain it.

Strange. I just checked all four of my current passports (oldest issued 2013) , 2 x Aus and 2xUK, and the signature is digitised from my application.

Sectors: ~50 New airports: WLG, LST, HBA, AVV New airlines: Wizzair (BUD-FRA) Shortest flight: tossup between WLG-NPL, NPL-AKL, SVG-BGO, SXB-AMS Longest flight: LHR-KUL rtn. J flights: LGW-TFS, LHR-KUL. everything else Y. Most expensive beer: Lervig Liquid Sex Robot, $18

Just remember, as Italians say: In Milan, a traffic light is an Instruction. Rome - it's a Suggestion. In Naples, it's a Christmas decoration!

Touring Tassie for a few days next month. Launceston, East coast, Hobart. What wineries en route worth visiting? Chromy?

I just looked up what we paid National express in April: £87.60 prepaid return LHR- LGW for 2 adults with baggage. That's not a huge saving on what OP paid one way for a dedicated limo/taxi, and although fairly punctual involved a fair bit of hanging around waiting. I think in future I'd book...

Ravenna is probably the city I know best in Italy, visiting at least once a year on business and couple of times with my wife for tourism. I'm very fond of it but usually try to avoid driving. I also have techs working in Italy a lot and all have got some obscure fine at some point. Often months...

Having had to get from Seoul to MEL/SYD or PER a few times, I've used Air Asia arriving at KLIA2 late at night, stayed in Sama-Sama (the airside one) then got a daytime flight onward having slept well. You've already booked but worth considering if you have to do it again. They scuppered that...

And "Highlands and Islands" which basically means north and west of Inverness - Hebrides, Shetland, Wick etc. Rates here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-allowances-for-air-passenger-duty#rates-for-flights-starting-in-the-uk The Scottish Assembly had promised to halve APD and then...