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The red dresses are for school. They have different colours depending on which level of school they are at. Young primary students wear green, I think it was red for high school and purple for university. I was there when it was the beginning of the school year and they had special ceremonies...

Loved my travels through the 5 Stans last year have a great time. The gateway to hell is pretty amazing. I was told a tour guide actually got drunk and fell in once and had to wait in there for a couple of hours before being rescued! When I was there they had just put up a fence around it maybe...

Great trip report I loved my travels through the ‘Stans but as someone else said I would highly recommend Iran as I think it was even more amazing.

I travelled with G Adventures (‘Stans) and Intrepid (Georgia and Azerbaijan) both are great tour companies and usually have no more than 15-16 people on each tour. For G Adventures their tours were all completely full in 2018 I know they added more tours due to the demand for this year. I...

I’ve not seen it anywhere but I would love a tool that let you find reward seats between one start point and multiple destinations. I was once searching for reward seats when living in London for a trip to Australia and any of the major cities would have been fine for me to fly into as I had...

When I was in Uzbekistan the atm’s gave you USD and then you needed to exchange them so I would take USD.

No I haven’t seen the series. One of the couples on our tour had been in China and travelled overland to Kyrgyzstan but did say there was a lot of police checks and they got in trouble one day as they got a train for somewhere they didn’t have a permit for.

I travelled through Central Asia last year in July and August. It was absolutely amazing and your pics bought back some great memories. I didn’t travel independently I was doing tours with G Adventures and Peregrines as I was a woman travelling on my own and I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to...

Thanks I keep telling myself worse things could have happened to me and obviously I won’t make the same mistake again!

Well on Saturday after 18 years of travelling with no issues I had all my money and credit and debit cards stolen while in Mongolia. It happened about 3 hours before I was due to head to the airport and for the whole trip I had been keeping a separate wallet back at the hotel with most of my...

I'm about to get LTS but it has taken me about 10 years to get there. I don't go out of my way to maximise SC's and as I live in the UK these days can't make use of a lot of the double SC promotions. However my regular J flights to Australia have contributed to me getting LTS but given I'm self...

It's apparently going to be Chloe Hosking (Road Race) and Anabelle Smith (Sync Diving). I was hoping for some of the swimmers that have finished their events, but will still be cool to meet some of the athlete's.

Thanks for the feedback from those that have attended, I'm looking forward to it now and also just got a text that some Olympians are due to attend tonight. Especially glad to hear about the Perrier Jouet it's one of my favourite champagnes. I wasn't quite sure what to expect but was meeting a...

Was wondering if anyone has checked out the Qantas Olympics lounge yet. I got an invite and was thinking of heading there on Thursday with a friend to check it out.

I think that's going to be my main problem. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to get an eligible QF flight number unless i fly to asia or australia in the next couple of weeks which I don't have the time to do right now.

Thanks for the replies, I'm just 6 weeks out from my renewal now so I'll wait to see if they contact me. I had initially planned to be back in Australia in May which would have meant I wouldn't have had a problem unfortunately it didn't happen :-( It's not a massive problem as I always fly...

I live in London so mainly use my Gold Card for access to the BA Lounges when I'm travelling with them in Economy around Europe or to the US. I had thought of moving to the BA programme but the Qantas one has always seemed to be better than BA's. I already have a Virgin Atlantic account so not...

I've had QFF Gold status for about 5 years now based solely on Leisure trips, this year I didn't travel as much as I had been out of work for 10 months and when I did it wasn't always on OneWorld as other options were cheaper. I got my Gold renewed last time even though I was 10 status credits...

I just thought I would add my travel insurance experience for you all. I had what is probably the worse thing to happen while travelling happen. My mother died after contracting pneumonia in Germany over Christmas. I live in London so they had come over to have their first white christmas and...

Rather than making your first flight a trip to Europe why don't you look at getting a cheap domestic flight on QANTAS and see how you go with your nervousness.