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ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Travel Advice

The travel money card market is heating up once again with the introduction of a new product from ANZ to give savvy travellers a reward for spending whilst overseas. Introducing the ANZ Rewards Travel Adventures Card which is packed full of features for both home and abroad that combines the need for having different additional cards to use whilst travelling overseas. In the past I...

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Save on global roaming charges: Woolworths Global Roaming Sim Card Travel Advice

One of the biggest expenses while travelling overseas for many people has been the bill shock received once returning home from a trip using a mobile phone in a foreign country. Roaming costs are extreme with the local phone networks blaming the overseas providers for overcharging them for customers using another network. While only recently Australian telco’s have started to reduce foreign roaming charges and forge...

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Velocity Global Wallet adds South African Rand Other News

As of today (15 January 2015) it has become easier to spend your well earned money in South Africa with the travel money card from airline Virgin Australia the Velocity Global Wallet adding support for the South African currency Rand (ZAR). Support for the currency makes sense with closer ties between Virgin Australia and South African Airways as well as a partnership between Etihad Airways...

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Reduce international mobile charges, Global Roaming SIM’s compared Other News

One of the biggest expenses while travelling overseas for many people has been the bill shock received once returning home from a trip using a mobile phone in a foreign country. Roaming costs are extreme with the local phone networks blaming the overseas providers for overcharging them for customers using another network. While only recently Australian telco’s have started to reduce foreign roaming charges and forge...

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Going on a tour? Meet your fellow travellers before leaving home with TourRadar Other News

One of the most confronting and daunting tasks of joining a group tour is the “getting to know you” phase and introducing yourself. Often on group tours you are forced on the first day to play the old getting to know you games, which is usually sitting next to everyone on the bus and talking about yourself for 2 minutes. The process is simply awkward,...

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Are Travel Money Cards really worth the hassle? Travel Advice

The Australian travel money card market is becoming increasingly saturated each year with more and more players offering a new product usually offering a pre paid debit card linked to Visa or Mastercard that will include a range of the most popular currencies with virtual wallets. It can be quite overwhelming trying to decide which product offers the best value for money with some having...

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Auditioning for Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire TV Show Audience / Victoria

This blog post first appeared on my old TV Blog THE TUBE. Today I went along to the second stage of the Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire auditions, which were held at The University of Melbourne’s Hawthorn campus. It started out with everyone lining up to get their name marked off, then everyone was presented with a unique contestant number to be stuck on as...

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A night with Bert Newton in the audience of Bert’s Family Feud TV Show Audience / Victoria

This blog post first appeared on my old TV Blog THE TUBE. Last night (Friday 19th January 2007) I went along with a friend to the recording of three episodes of Bert’s Family Feud, filmed at Channel Nine’s GTV9 studio’s in Richmond, Melbourne. Before we entered the studio, all members of the audience were required to watch a Health and Safety DVD narrated by Pete Smith....

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