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    Emirates flights to Australia

    In mid-Feb 2021 I returned to Australia on Emirates, flying from Barcelona to Perth on EK 186 + EK 420. I’ve used some of my time in quarantine to put together a short YouTube video of the experience. It was so strange to fly in a 777 with just 39 passengers... Enjoy!
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    Overseas Spending Money Strategies

    My wife and I have been travelling for the past 9 months, using a variety of credit and debit cards. Our experience echoes that of many other posters on this thread – no other Australian card can better the Citibank 28 degree card for exchange rates, and on top of that it is free. However...
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    QF Cash - Earn Rates Changing from 01 July 2017

    I think this is a fair summary. I've been travelling OS for 8 months now, using a mix of cards, credit and travellers, and am quite stunned at the appalling lack of value on the pre-paid travellers cards. It's mostly the rip-off exchange rate - it varies from currency to currency with USD the...
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    What's in your bag? For photographers that travel

    Couldn't agree more. Instead of carting around a bulky DLSR and the lenses to go with it, I've settled on taking just 2 x Sony compacts. The HDX-90 is a versatile travel camera with a 30:1 zoom and can geo-tag it's shots, while the RX-100 has a 1 inch sensor, can shoot RAW and comes with a very...
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    3,000 QFF Points Qantas Cash offer (until 1 December 2015)

    I took advantage of this today. Offer came via email. A QFF member but hadn't activated Qcash before. Checked the USD currency exchange rate and found it comparable to Commbank, so decided to give the product a go. I guess that's the whole point of the offer...
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