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Thoughts from a month’s backpacking honeymoon

I’m publishing this on the hoof, right now we’re in Istanbul near the end of our honeymoon back home. Here are some app-travelling notes (for our Nexus 4 Androids). Google Translate offers Offline dictionaries for all the European languages, each is 150mb. We downloaded new ones before each country hop. Generally they were very useful, […]
11 years ago

Some international flight tips

Having flown a lot recently I’ve discovered that whilst it isn’t super-fun, it is no longer terribly uncomfortable. Maybe the crutches I use are useful to someone else. Water – it turns out that if you buy water in Duty Free they will bag it and carry it onto the plane for you. This avoids […]
12 years ago