Sydney
“It’s great to go away, and it’s great to come home.”
This has been our family travel motto for years. As much as Clive and I share a passion for travel and exploring new places, we equally share a love of being home and spending time together in Sydney.
Jet Lag on the Return
Jet lag can occur [...]
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Sydney
Clive and I have personal business in four countries, and currencies, whether we’re travelling or not.
As indicated by the name of this blog, Sydney and Paris are primary locations. Our home is in Sydney and we spend as much time as possible at my apartment in Paris. We also have various accounts in our countries [...]
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Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Experiencing jet lag is like eating jambalaya, a traditional Louisiana dish made with an endless variety of meats, vegetables, rice, and Cajun seasonings.
The basic ingredients are similar each time you have jambalaya. But depending on their relative proportions and how they’re mixed together, the result can differ wildly in taste and sensation.
As [...]
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And still working on my jet lag post, in bits and pieces between appointments and family visits.
It’s kind of strange doing it while I’m jet-lagged.
All is well with us and I hope it is with everyone reading this.
I’ll be back soon with all the excitement from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.
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Sydney
As we’ve been doing our final packing today, I realised I forgot an important consideration in making a long journey as comfortable as possible: clothing.
I also forgot to include lip moisturiser, along with Vitamin E oil and hand lotion, to help counteract dry, recycled air. My favourite is plain Chapstick.
Here are our recommendations for what to [...]
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Sydney
Clive and I regularly take long-haul flights between Sydney and Europe, the U.S., and Asia. Other than within Asia, our average journey time, including stopovers, is between 26 and 30 hours.
So how best to pass the time? What can we passengers do to make time on board the airplane as painless as possible?
We’ve developed a [...]
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Sydney
It may sound weird, but Clive and I don’t mind airports.
A lot of people whinge and moan about how terrible they are, and we wouldn’t exactly say they’re fun. Most are pretty boring. Some are better than others, and the best, especially in Asia, are quite civilised. I wrote about Singapore’s Changi Airport in ‘Asia [...]
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Sydney
Once you have a master trip calendar and are working through a travel planning checklist, reviewing a packing checklist, and making sure all travel technology is in order, thoughts turn to departure day.
It may sound complicated, but it’s just a calendar and three checklists (planning, packing, and departure), which cover ‘known items’.
Checklists save time, reduce stress, and leave us free to deal [...]
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Sydney
As mentioned in my prior post about packing for a trip, I may be iPod-less, but Clive and I take a lot of technology with us when we travel.
Despite our best efforts starting out, we always seem to end up with a pile of cables, connectors, and chargers that become intertwined.
Clive says it resembles an [...]
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Sydney
Having a packing checklist you can easily update and use over and over makes this part of travel easy and stress-free.
Today Clive asked me, “How are you going to write a whole post about a spreadsheet?”
I’m not, exactly. What I am doing is advocating a process, and sharing a specific tool I find incredibly helpful.
By [...]
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