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Puerile I know, but surely there is something wrong with naming your kid “Jock Stirrup”. Better not to laugh too loud because he’s the RAF’s Air Chief Marshall [Sir].

I can’t believe it. All it took was a couple of television advertisements, Flight Centre’s European Holiday Expo and their Early Bird Airfares ad. All day I have been staring up at the aircraft as they flew over and I have an incredibly strong urge to book flights to Europe. Then I could start planning…

The holiday is over and we are at home in Sydney. In some ways it is good to be back in comfortable and familiar surroundings, a place where we can relax. However, there is much that I will miss about overseas and it won’t be fun to return to the familiar problems. Anyway, I’m too…

I am so very depressed. We are leaving Japan tomorrow. I don’t want to go. I’m not yet ready for our holiday to end. There is still so much to see and do. Whether due to jet lag or someother reason, I had trouble sleeping last night. I decided that things need to change when…

Our second night in Tokyo and I am dreading our return to Australia. We haven’t left Shinjuku since arriving here from the airport about the Narita Express. After staying mostly in basic 2 star hotels I hoped that we were in for a bit of luxury in Tokyo. We don’t generally need or use the…