When someone says they want to see you at noon, your mind usually meanders to thoughts of lunches. A salad perhaps, or maybe some pasta. And a beer. Hmmmm… lovely lovely beer.
Not Dr O’Dempsey. Nice bloke though he is, he had an ulterior motive.
You see, since New York I noticed that a mosquito bite had [...]

I’ve often wondered about this - a lot of travellers take out traveller’s cheques or buy currency from their bank in advance. They often then exchange at banks when abroad.
As a regular overseas traveller I always felt, but hadn’t really researched properly, that ATM’s and credit card transactions were best - in spite of [...]

Well… kind of. You won’t see much difference, but I’ve just upgraded the software for the blog to v2.0.1 - in reality it makes the blog a fair bit easier for me to use, but won’t make much of a difference to you except that with a bit of luck you’ll see better updates. [...]