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This was the view from my home office in NE Scotland until the snow thawed a few days ago

I get your point, and I agree with exploring familiar places in more detail, but I don't imagine I would go back to Pointe-Noire (R. Congo) or Luanda in a hurry. Russia was a country I'd built up a strong connection with over 20 years of business visits, especially Siberia and Sakhalin, but...

As a widower in my 70s, heading for retirement, I have to say I don't really have a bucket list of places, so much as things I want to do and people I want to see. More often, places I want to return to, but life still takes me to unexpected new places: a festival by a lake in southern Sweden...

Matt, it's great to see you managed to make a living by producing quality content in a very over-supplied market. Your efforts are much appreciated. I started travelling internationally in 1978, (from Australia to USA then UK, Europe, SE Asia) when there were very few resources for the...

Allegations have been made by various alligators!

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...

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.