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Worlds Largest Aircraft Graveyard: Tucson Arizona (USA)

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my most popular articles or learn more about Neerav Bhatt. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona is the biggest aircraft graveyard […]

Camels at Sunset on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia - Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Camels at Sunset on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia.

In late 2003 I travelled up the West Australian Coast from Perth to Broome, where I took a camel ride with Ships of the Desert.
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Saudi Arabia: The Magic Kingdom

GUEST ARTICLE: You don’t go to The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a tourist. In fact, there’s no such thing as a tourist visa in Saudi. The only holiday makers are on their religious pilgrimage to Mecca for the Hajj. If you are not Muslim, the only way to get into the country is with […]

Discover the Wild Lands of Olympic National Park, USA

GUEST ARTICLE: Seattle went to bed one night as a small town, and woke up the next morning having been transformed into a burgeoning city.

We’re not quite comfortable with the arrangement - much like a middle child - but on reflection it’s hard not to appreciate the eclectic mix.
While Microsoft and Boeing […]

Guide to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)

Every summer countless Sydneysiders and visitors from interstate and overseas come to the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) to watch matches like the Sydney New Year’s Test Match, One day internationals and domestic matches.
I’ll give you tips to help you get to the SCG quickly and enjoy your day as best as possible.

Situated in Moore […]

Tourists Guide/Review of Sydney Wildlife World (Darling Harbour)

This is a guide/review of Sydney Wildlife World to convince you that it’s not worth buying an entry ticket for it compared to other wildlife parks like Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
I live in Sydney, so I’ve seen all the regular tourist sights several times as we’ve shown visiting international relatives and friends visiting Australia around […]

Tourists Guide/Review of Sydney Centrepoint Tower Observation Deck

This is a guide/review of Sydney’s AMP Centrepoint Tower to help you decide whether it’s worth buying a ticket to go to the top for a view of the Sydney skyline from the Observation Deck.

I live in Sydney, so I’ve seen all the regular tourist sights […]

Sunrise on Top of Mount Kosciusko New Years Day - Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Sunrise on top of Mount Kosciusko at 4:59AM January 1st 2007 (New Years Day).

In the middle of Summer at the end of 2006, I went on a 4 day bush walking and camping trip organised by fellow members of the UTS Outdoor Adventure Club (OAC) to […]

Rockbox FREE MP3 iPod, Sansa etc upgrade: Games, Themes, More

This article reviews the FREE Rockbox software and explains how it hugely improves video MP3 players like: Apple iPod, iAudio X5, Sandisk Sansa and Toshiba Gigabeat with better audio playback quality, games, applications, plays more codecs (OGG, FLAC etc), themes, gapless playback and optional spoken interface.
These extra […]

Istanbul, Turkey: Where East and West Meet

GUEST ARTICLE: To borrow a phrase from my old Roman Law lecturer, late on Friday during the Autumn of 2007, I arrived in Constantinople, or Istanbul as the Turks insist on calling it. Personally, I prefer Byzantium, simply because “Byzantine” is such a great adjective.
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What would you expect to see from an Istanbul Hotel window? […]

Find Out Time and Date In Another City Or Country

www.timeanddate.com is a great resource for finding out time and date related information for any major city or country around the world:

Whether you’re Checking the date and time for international business conference calls. For example it allows you to pick up to 4 cities on the planet and compare times for a web meeting or […]

Why 4WD / SUVs are Terrible Family Cars

“Mothers have started to swarm in tightly organised groups of 200,000 or so toward the 4WD off-road car. Really and truly it’s hard to think of a more inappropriate selection of family cars.
I tell you people who have off road cars [in the city] are stupid and mad. They should be driven from the roads […]

Web2Mail and Mail2Web Free Services Review

Web2Mail.com and Mail2Web.com are 2 great services which allow you to:

Subscribe to your favourite web pages, and receive email updates of the whole page - Web2Mail.com
Access your POP or IMAP email account to read and send emails via a webmail interface - Mail2Web.com

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I’ve been using Web2Mail for […]

Anna Creek Painted Desert Scenic Flight Review

I recently took a scenic flight over the Anna Creek Painted Desert (aka Painted Hills) during my Trans-Australia Road Trip through the arid desert which dominates central Australia
These spectacular painted hills are located within the confines of the Woomera rocket range within an hours flight from William Creek (population 10) a former stop on the […]

Review - Planequiet NC-7 Noise Cancelling Headphones

I just purchased the Plane Quiet NC-7 Noise Cancelling Headphones from their US manufacturers Pro Travel Gear to wear while commuting to work on trains and buses. That way I could listen to music or watch my Tokai 7″ inch portable DVD/DIVX player in relative peace and quiet without having to turn up the volume […]

Photos from Outback South Australia, The Red Centre and Tropical Top End

During my Backpacking Road Trip from Adelaide to Darwin I took approximately 5.5 Gigabytes of JPG photos and Quicktime videos with my Panasonic FZ30 camera.

Of these almost 2000 photos I will select around 10% of the best photos for the dual purpose of showing where I passed through and the best technical and scenic shots […]

Adelaide to Darwin Backpacking Road Trip Overview

I’ve just returned from a backpacker holiday road trip from Adelaide to Darwin which would easily have covered 4500-5000 kilometres mostly on the Stuart Highway including several side trips like going to Uluru (Ayers Rock) and drives on unsealed and bush roads like the Oodnadatta Track.

Over […]

Fly Virgin Blue & Get 5% of Flight Cost Rebated

Whenever I book flights within Australia & NZ I always do it on Virgin Blue because I know how to get 5% of my flight cost* rebated as credit on my Virgin Mobile account and besides that Qantas is expensive with poor service and Jetstar is cheap and nasty with less legroom.
Everyone knows that Virgin […]

Fly Carbon Neutral With Virgin Blue Carbon Credits

I recently booked 2 flights on Virgin Blue and was pleasantly surprised to see an option to Purchase Carbon Credits to offset the emissions made by that flight.
To give you an idea of the cost you can expect this is what I paid:
Flight from Sydney to Adelaide
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Sydney Public Transport Trip Planner: Train, Bus & Ferry

Probably my most frequently used website travelling for planning social outings or meetings for work, the Sydney Public Transport Trip planner is the best way to plan a trip on public transport in Sydney, whether by Train, Bus or Ferry or a mixture of methods.
It allows you to state exactly when you want to leave […]

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