travel tips

Heh, well ok, I didn’t know but when abroad and you need to use google, it can be slightly tricky to use if you don’t know the local language.

So if you use :-

http://www.google.no/en

It’ll change your default language to english – this also works with changing back to anything like

http://www.google.co.uk/ru

To swap yourself to Russian – very helpful – previously i was also hand adding ?hl=en to do a similar thing.

Another tip, if you cancel the flight – you can claim back flight duty and tax even if you can’t claim on the airfare – and that’s normally a reasonable chunk of change for long flights!

balloons everywhere

Well we were sitting down eating pizza, and watching the kids down below “loosing” their balloons, after an hour or so there was a pretty large collection of them sitting around the roof. Now question is whether someone went up there to bring them down, or did they just wait a few days for the helium to leak out?

Unfortunately, only had my phone with me – so not as nice a picture as it could’ve been – still, and interesting view.