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Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! Phuket International Airport (code: HKT) is Thailand’s second busiest airport. I was surprised at that fact because having flown through the airport a couple of times – its fairly small, and feels like a medium-sized domestic airport, rather than one…
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I took this photos as the ferry to Tasmania pulled out of Melbourne. Its unusual – not only was the morning completely calm, but most of the ferry’s sailings are overnight. I really liked how the just rising sun managed to highlight the older buildings along St Kilda Road on the waterfront, while the more…
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The smile says it all! I was sooo looking forward to this swim. Bell Gorge is a camping site on station on the Gibb River Road, Western Australia. We’d driven all day on dusty, rutted roads, knowing that somewhere near the camp site was a crocodile free swimming hole! We arrived about an hour before…
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I’m already sold on my Kindle for travel. I bought what is now known as a Kindle Keyboard, earlier this year. The device is great, and I’ll tell you why in a moment. But the thing is, I need to buy another one. My partner has high-jacked my Kindle! He won’t give it back. He’s a voracious…
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That’s where it starts you know. I just wanted to travel for a year and “get it out of my system”, settle down, get a job, build a career… Well there is some good and bad news – the good news is that taking the year off to travel is not that hard. The bad…
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Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! So you are little frustrated about the prices you’ve found for flights to Ko Samui? I’m not surprised, the route has very little competition on it, and until recently the ONLY airline that flew the route was Bangkok Airways –…
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OK – so you are planning to travel to Thailand and you want to stay in contact with the peeps back home. In today’s inter-connected world you may be just assuming that your smart phone/ iPad /netbook will just WORK. Well – yes it probably will – at a price. Not working out how you want…
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Choosing where to stay in Phuket is tricky, its a large island , with at least six very developed tourist beaches, and plenty of less well-known beaches to chose from. Alternatively you can stay inland in Phuket City or semi-rural areas such as Chalong. So there is no real one answer fits all answer to…
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On our recent trip to Thailand we spent a few days staying in Kata Beach, one of Phuket’s famous beach resorts. One of the frustrating things about trying to research popular beach resorts in Thailand is all you will find is result after result written by the marketing department of a resort or tourist authority. This…
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Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! Now I just got back from a few days in Cape Panwa, located in southern Phuket. Its a little off the beaten track of the “big” Phuket tourist beaches of Patong, Kata and Karon, so I thought I might give…
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