Montego Bay Hotels With the 5-star resorts and world class hotels scattered all over the island, it comes as no surprise that Montego Bay is one of the best places to stay in the Caribbean. No problems with finding good places to eat or fun things to do and paying for so many different things [...]

If you are thinking of going to Beijing for a vacation and you have some kids that are still shorter than 120cm you should be aware that kids less than 120cm are able to travel on the bus and subway network for free. Also many of the attractions in Beijing allow kids free entry if [...]

On my recent vacation in Beijing my family decided to try out the bullet train that travels from Beijing to Tianjin. The train line was only opened just before the Beijing Olympics. The Chinese say it is the fastest train of that type on the planet. To catch the train we went to the Beijing [...]

The 21st edition of the Floriade flower festival will open on September 13 in Canberra. Floriade is the biggest flower festival in Australia and is well worth a visit if you are coming to Canberra. I try to visit every year and I can personally give it the thumbs up. The festival will run from [...]

The recent political unrest in Thailand highlights the need to register yourself with the appropriate government department when going to an overseas country. In my case as an Australian I would go to the Smart Traveller website and register myself. The reason you would want to do this is if a normal calm situation suddenly [...]

The Xinqiao Novotel Beijing hotel is in a great location and is ideally located in the central district of Beijing. The great thing is that you have a subway station at your doorstep which gives you access to line 5 and line 2. With subway tickets at just 2rmb you have most of your Beijing [...]

I have just got back from my month vacation in Beijing, China. It was great to take in the Olympics and many other attractions in Beijing. The bad thing was not being able to access my site from over there. I thought I had the problem licked with a proxy service however this proved to [...]

I have been in Beijing for one week now. Since my arrival I have not been able to access my website to post articles. I also cannot connect via FTP. Thanks to a proxy service I came across I can at least post articles. It is really slow so I don’t know how much I [...]

Next month Tianjin plays host to some Olympic soccer matches. Sports fans commuting from Beijing to Tianjin will be in for a treat as the new express train link is about to open. The railway will open next Friday just ahead of the Games. The rail journey will be reduced by one hour to a [...]

At the end of June I wrote about how the expected hotel operator Olympic cash bonanza does not look like happening. More recent articles doing the rounds in the press are further pushing that point. In what is good news for visitors to the China Olympics the prices for hotel rooms seem to be coming [...]