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I hear that there are Snowboarder free mountains in the US. Bliss!

JUST GO! Pick somewhere where there is more to do than skiing, and you'll be fine. Queenstown has lots to do, Niseko has easily accessible Japanese culture courtesy of the english speaking tourists and fun snowmobiling, and the Victorian Alps have wineries nearby. It is never cheap, but so...

I have only had the opportunity to use it once as I normally have kids in tow. The only reason I used it was the queue was quicker - two Smart Gates, two people at 0300 in DRW is really quite miserable.

The Here2go clan may cross paths at CTS on the 12th!

Skiing from the Alm back to the Hotel after two beers and three schnapps before partying into the evening. Booya!

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Can you ice skate, roller blade, or roller skate? If so, you can ski!

No good for me, but looks like fun. I've anybody is in Niseko 12-19 January though two AFFers, along with Mrs, Master and Miss Here2go will be at Niseko Tracks. Happy to trade babysitting duties would be for a nights on the town without kids!

I watched it yesterday at Palmerston Cinema in Darwin with the kids. I must say I would have preferred to be on that MD11.

Even with the Departure Tax it's still cheaper for me to fly to Bali than Air North to OOL or VA/JQ or QF to BNE. That said, I have looked at the Indonesian taxes as a reason to NOT transit through DPS over SIN.

Belarus according to my mother-in-law who travelled there recently. Not high on my travel list. I reckon there should be more of it! IMHO if you don't have insurance you can't afford to travel OS.

One of the arguments for keeping the tax so high was travellers sans travel insurance being a burden on DFAT. If true, I have a simple answer - adopt a business process similar to the NSW CTP system that compels you to link your insurance to your rego for travel insurance. No compulsory travel...

I've made my first FOREX payment through Citibank to Niseko Base Sports in Niseko, Japan. I must admit, I'm not happy. Citibank Australia haven't charged - happy. North Pacific Bank charged their ¥1500 - known in advanced and advised by NBS. Cool. However, there is a random ¥1000 that has...

Yay! Good to see. It certainly makes flying ex DRW more attractive when connecting to an SQ or MI flight that isn't on the VA network.

And I'm guessing they don't break guitars like United :) You might find this interesting: Best Practices: From First To Worst – Continental In A Post United World, Lessons In Next Gen Customer Experience « A Software Insider's Point of View

The SWIFT BIC checker will validate details, and will give the the BIC (the old SWIFT Code) to confirm details, but as you said - always check. It intrigues me that it is still do arcane this process for everywhere bar the EU, which follows ISO standards, and as a result IBAN has become...

I've done a bit more digging around. The SWIFT is now called BIC. It can be used to identify the branch, but in this case, the Bank has one SWIFT after checking here: SWIFT - SWIFT - Online Directories and downloads As per normal, nomenclature has caused a problem here, although I would like...

This is all you get for filling in Forex bank details. Just a tad annoying. I would have thought there would be country based validations. SWIFTs should be there, along with an API to validate them!

AFFable people and Citibank Plus users I'm about to transfer money using Citibank Plus to an account in Japan. Japan seems to be a bit of a backwater when it comes to FCUR (as is Australia in the absence of IBAN), and the one-size fits all for FCUR on the Citibank website with little...

Re: The higher the status, the less direction some [think they] need to follow from C Devices annoy me, although now there is evidence suggesting they have little impact, I am not so stressed. What annoys me is people talking over the top of the safety demo, especially a drunk AJ on the last JQ...