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So tomorrow we fly.. it is at least 4 years since we left our fair shore and the time has come. The trip is a simple 11 day loop ex Tokyo around Fukuoka Island, Japan Our ship is SilverSea Silver Whisper, on of the older and smaller vessels in the fleet with lower passenger numbers compared to...

SilverSea Website Internationally has been wide open for many hours today Personal details, financial details, booking details, passports…. everything. Just Log in to get a smorgasbord of interesting stuff. Folks were desperately ringing execs and contacts to warn them with little success Took...

I am starting this thread as general repository for news and views about conflict and how it may change our lives and our travel plans. Please remember the site rules in relation to National political comment and respect for personal views ( mods.. is this ok ?? ) After a very long period of...

Kookaburra's evocative glider pics in the favourite photo's thread sent me rummaging. Sadly my pics are mostly very poor quality, but I am working on scanning some history from the mess. This glider resides in the Australian Gliding museum, it was my first single seat conversion and I obtained...

I am really loth to start another thread but all the useful tech info keeps drowning in the general discussion Not sure if another thread is the solution , perhaps earlier contributors could find the thread numbers of useful tech info posted and list the thread number here so a "kind" moderator...

The news in Australia about Covid management continues to be quite wonderful , kudos to everyone. There is , however, little to be cheerful about looking forward, street talk everywhere is getting louder about the "end" and a return to normality ; the implication is that Covid is a rain...

It is an ill wind indeed that blows nobody any good, so as we are not travelling anytime soon (or maybe even later ) our budgets should be stacking up. Most of us are suffering some level of economic distress.. but has this killed your budget ? What are you going to do about it ? I guesstimate...

We can't fly and our travel wings are clipped ,so we need some inspiration in these difficult times. Here is the challenge.. your best travel day..maximum 24 hours timeframe. Every one of us has been somewhere and done something that for us.. was especially memorable. Please contribute , we...

A thread to consider the reality of living in a society infected with Covid-19 As the reality of broad infection spreads like wildfire through our communities, here is an interesting primer for us to consider everyday dealing with the bug. It was copied from a facebook post. There is very...

Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines are working with federal and state officials to trace the path of a married couple that has tested positive for coronavirus after visiting Hawaii...

We are booked on the Silver Explorer along the Japan coast in June ,including a day in Busan. Today is our 120 day get out of jail day (cancel no charge) The ship has gone from full to plenty of availability and I am tempted to pull the pin . I expect that the cruise as it is will not happen...

The hug was an enormously successful and well used emoticon in the previous software The AFF community is quite close and caring and the icon was extensively used as an expression of warm inclusive sympathy among friends. Please reconsider.. and bring back the Hug...

It all started with a fb feed from an engineering site that I follow I thought that was uber cool and woke up mr(mrs) google this : Spontaneous synchronization to speech reveals neural mechanisms facilitating language learning all a bit er cerebral but interesting or this : Spontaneous...

My Travel Pro Rollaboard is tired. It also recently disgraced itself by falling over (again) and tipping swmbo into the adjacent lounge table. Enough!! I cannot find a cabin bag that keeps the heaviest item (a macbook pro) in balance Every bag I check out has a nifty way of extracting the...

Sharing this with the permission of the author… LATAM Air Lines tried to 'steal' from me - On July 8, 2018, through the LATAM Airlines (English language, Canada) website, I purchased a one-way ticket on flight LA893 departing 11:20 LPB (La Paz, Bolivia), arriving 15:20 SCL (Santiago, Chile)...

It is not getting enough exposure in the cities , but the bush is doing it hard. Sadly it is all the voiceless animals who suffer the most. There are many voices calling for people to care, this is just one….. Hey I’m not someone who is in to politics or ranting on Facebook. But I have just...

Just booked Bne> Sfo with Air New Zealand. Great price and seems a good flight. For an annual int J flyer, is there any point in collecting the airpoints ? I used my velocity # in the booking but assume there are no crossover arrangements. We harvest a steady stream of qf points, but status...

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Anyone else waded in? I have had a little dabble…..

In a moment of mental vacuousness, I added a couple of bottles of low priced Syrah to my Xmas discount Riesling order. I knew it was dumb and the opened bottle winking at me last night confirmed the mental vacuosity….( invented word) It ended up in the kitchen frig last night after one painful...