Does anyone ever say yes to this question?
- Goods obtained overseas or purchased duty and/or tax free in Australia
with a combined total price of more than AUD$900, including gifts?
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We are having our floors sanded and restored so we are spending a few days at Crown Towers. It is a very nice hotel and in a great part of Melbourne.
Today we have been sitting in the Oyster Bar eating oysters and drinking a very nice Margaret River Sav Blanc for three hours.
It is nice to be retired sometimes.
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The Blue Oyster Bar? Have all the Mrs Foxes been women?
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The answer is no!
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Take your bat and ball and go home?
All jokes aside is was a decent stay and interesting enough. We finished with some shopping in Shanghai and then made our way back to HCMC via Hong Kong and home now.
Unless something else pops up unexpectedly that will see us through this year.
At this stage next year only plans is Bali in May for a 18th and then off to the US for the WC for around 5 weeks. Going to try and get a week in somewhere in the ME on the way home most likely Qatar or Saudi Arabia
Another trip to Bali and Jakarta in October for 2 weeks after that
I’ll be at the airport tonight picking up mum. Lisbon, Dubai, Melbourne is one heck of a flight.
That’s nuts. Japan has some cool floor to ceiling bookstores and stuff for the Instas, but this is next level.
I remember Blue Oyster Bar from Police Academy, is that what you mean?
Nope , this is part of the Atlantic Restaurant at Crown and that have cheap (relatively to normal) oysters from 12pm to 6 pm each day. Actually oysters were very good, wine was nice but farking expensive.
All Mrs Foxes to date have been female, but at my age I am open to a change.
Sounds a bit abstemious. 125ml/person/h.
Also, with you praising a WA wine: has someone hacked your account?
Think that’s nuts? Today we went to a dilapidated, closed down theme park. It ceased operating many years ago, but it gets used for K-dramas and K-pop videos, and you can walk around the grounds.
So there we are… wandering through rides in various states of disrepair. An absolute OHS nightmare… sharp, rusted surfaces, broken tiles, smashed glass… having to check the state of everything before we jumped in. You could get the Pirate Ship moving by hand (I’m surprised it didn’t come crashing down!)
Wandering around a derelict funfair, with a handful of other happy-snappers, playing K-pop songs from our phones and me embarrassing Little Miss B with my absymal attempts at boyband dance moves.
It was surreal.
It was a bit odd.
It all looked a bit sad.
But it was riotous fun!..
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That theme park has been documented on the Abandoned Engineering show on SBS.
So this Qantas announcement of some sort of economy premium in between economy and premium economy is just them charging extra for exit rows?
I’m at the airport playing the how many people can I catch by scratching the back of my head looking like I’m waiving game
Pretty much the same as other carriers have such as Virgin Australia and American Airlines as examples. Just economy seats such as exit rows offering extra legroom plus priority boarding and priority access to overhead bins.
Platinum and above can select these seats free of charge whilst Gold have to wait until online check in opens to get it for free.
It will only be on some routes and aircraft until refurbished aircraft are on the system so it’s probably going to be 3 years down the track until it’s on every aircraft
Much more than one bottle, actually a bottle per dozen oysters.
Sounds like the best thing QF has done for a long time.
They have had a “lite” version of this for awhile. Platinum 1s could select row 4 or exit row seats in 737s without paying extra. They could also select row 1 if flying business class. This is not available to mere Platinums.
Row 4, poor man’s business class
( that’s me 
)
Who the hell sits THAT far back
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