Ok, we’ve all heard about the Booking.com scammer emails and fake websites and are being careful! So when I received a Booking.com email and app message about a Malta hotel booking I checked the originating email. My name and the booking number in the email were correct, and when I hovered over the booking number…
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Arrived Bucharest Nord station and needed tickets to the airport. Big display said airport train at 12:17 plus the sign next to it seemed it indicate an express train at 12:30, both on line 5, so we went to get tickets. Followed “Billets” sign and found a big bank of ticket machines, some even had…
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After Qantas cancelled our booked flight to San Francisco the code-share operator American Airlines re-booked the tickets on a flight earlier on the same day. To avoid a complicated start to the day I booked a room at the Sydney Airport Travelodge. The price was better than any of the alternatives at the time of…
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One day my trusty Acer travel laptop was misbehaving – I wanted to use it without a mouse but the trackpad was not responding. A quick online search turned up numerous helpful suggestions, from updating drivers to reinstalling Windows, but none of them were the sort of simple solution I was looking for. In fact…
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France is rightly famous for its wines, so it would be a crime to not sample them. Every corner shop and supermarket has a selection, and the prices start low – you can get very drinkable reds from less than 5€, about AU$8. But don’t expect screw caps on wine bottles, cork (or a plastic…
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I’m writing this while perched on my bag in the luggage zone of a Nice-Marseille TER train. It’s not the most comfortable spot for a nearly three hour journey, but at least I’m not standing. This ticket was booked on RailEurope.com months ago and I didn’t pay much attention to the lack of seat selection,…
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