Posted by Davo_169
i hope you have a great and well needed holiday down under,
and have a safe flight there and back again.
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Posted by govigov
Yup. We will make sure you have a lot of work to do when you are back! :-D PS we will look for a man wearing a SE hat in aus F1. (You still have time to buy the tickets! )
Posted by whizkidd
Not an SE hat. An Esato hat is what i'm looking for!
Posted by MikLSP
By the way its masseur not massuer
Posted by BobaFett
Masseur is off? Yippi, lets spam and chat to the last ;-)
Posted by Rva@
Bad idea, they have innternet Downunder too... And call me ishmael, if Mass. can stay off esato for the duration of his holyday...! Unless it's a hike in the mountans... :lol:
Posted by masseur
@Rva@, you're right of course and I've already sussed out the wifi hotspots and turned on my wifi access on my aussie email provider bigpond as they let me use the hotspots and bill back to my email acount.
not sure if its gonna be much of a holiday anyway... flying Qantas business class from Frankfurt to Sydney via Singapore tomorrow night arriving in Sydney Thursday morning. Got all sorts to do On thursday such as renew my driving licence, pick up a credit card replacement from my bank, dentist appointment and lots of other stuff like that.
On Friday I fly to Townsville to spend time with my parents and see my sister and her kids new kids.
Monday back to Sydney for more stuff I have to do in central Sydney and meal out with friends up Centrepoint Tower (revolving restaurant up a tower in middle of sydney) and then fly back to Frankfurt on Tuesday!
shame they don't have internet onboard yet 'coz I sorted myself out an in flight power adaptor for my pc that plugs into the aicraft power system. oh well...
Posted by mince-inside
Do they not have phones you can use on the plane? I'm sure as a gadget man (who appears to throw nothing away
) you'll have one of those ancient modem adapters for the mouth and ear piece of a normal handset - should connect fine at 2400bps...
Posted by masseur
yeah they do have flight phones which cost US$5/min and you can even send and receive SMS using those but unfortunately I don't have an accoustic coupler any more : -(
Posted by Rva@
Thatīs not a holyday, thats just a buisy to-do-list carryed around the globe...
Well Have a nice one, ay least you get to see friends and family..
Rva
Posted by EastCoastStar
that is one to-do list around the globe! it sounds like fun to me! but maybe thate becuase i would do ANYTHING to leave the USA for awhile. anyway masseur, i hope you have as much fun as you can!
Posted by tranquil
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...and Esato is equipped with a coupple of moderators more as well.
@Masseur
Enjoy your trip mate!
Posted by mrao
Enjoy your trip down under @masseur
Posted by methylated_spirit
While you are there, i have a balance request...a jar of vegemite, it will go really well with my marmite balance. Also, a boomerang and a postcard of Shit Creek.
Posted by masseur
you can get vegemite from Tesco, thats where my wife gets it from anyway
Tesco all sell Tim Tams if anyone knows what they are!
Posted by methylated_spirit
Tim Tams? Expound, dear chap, expound! Sounds most curious.
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Posted by gelfen
tim tams - without doubt the best chocolate biscuits in the world. Two chocolate biscuits, chocolate cream in the middle and all dipped in chocolate.
unfortunately i couldn't link to the manufacturer webiste (arnott's), but i did find this site where they can be ordered internationally, as well as a whole raft of other aussie food.
really good to drink tea, coffee or hot chocolate with if you bite both ends off and use the biscuit as a straw.
Posted by Davo_169
dont mention tim tams, im hungry
thank god you cAn get vegemite around the world othewise i would die
Posted by masseur
Arnotts Tim Tam page
English folk (ok, poms) reckon their Pengiun biscuit is better but IMHO it just doesn't have the same class
Tim Tam vs Penguin at NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com where you can also read about the Official UK Tim Tam Launch at the Australian High Commission (half way down the page)
you can also learn a little more about Time Tams at rathergood.com
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Posted by shithappens
haf a good trip mate...and shoot some pix for us to see
Posted by gelfen
@mass: enjoy your trip home mate
Posted by Davo_169
havin some bacardis in the louge about now are you mass??
Posted by masseur
no mate. its 8am now and I have a full days work to do before the flight just before midnight tonight but there will certainly be bacardis involved somewhere there!
Posted by blackspot
I'd suggest the Bacardi 8yo
Have a safe trip!
Posted by Davo_169
tim tams must seem like a strange name to those that havent heard of them aye
Posted by masseur
well, no need for me to get tim tams since I can get them in UK but I do have a list for stuff like minties, mint patties, cottees choclate topping and for me... grandfather port $100/bottle last time I was home
anyway, I'm in the lounge with that bacardi with about an hour until I head to the gate to board the plane
they're not doing 1st class today so I am one of the lucky 14 to get bumped up to the 1st class seats in the nose. I had the same last time and its great because you get a full panorama view of the take off and landing as you can see out both sides at the same time
watch out Sydney (and Townsville)... here I come!
Posted by methylated_spirit
I am going to do a taste-off between the two chocolatey snackes...Townsville... Town means small-ish built-up area, and ville means small-ish towney place...So does Townsville mean small built-up quiet neighbourhoody g'day area?
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Posted by *Jojo*
Bon Voyage pal
While you are havin' a grand time in your hometown, MOST of the members here will have FUN too 
Yup, The start of the 2005 F1 season will kick off in Australia this weekend, I hope you'll watch it, try including it in your itinerary, buy some souvenir items and throw it away in the Playtime Contest dude 
! Hope to see you back (in the threads) - in ONE piece !
Posted by mince-inside
Of course he's gonna have fun, has mentioned he yet his wife and kids are going?... nuf said, bring on the beer and the dancing girls (sorry air hostesses)
Posted by masseur
nah, no wife and kids on this trip. they wanna wait until we go home permanantly
just a quick hello from the Qantas lounge in Singapore with free wifi access
missing me? nah of course not
Posted by k4m!k4ze
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On the way eh ? Enjoy the trip.
I was wondering why laffen was doing some of the work of locking up threads
Posted by govigov
Hey man, how many bacardi's down now? ;-) have fun yaar. . . .
Posted by masseur
well, I have arrived but I'll have to come back later 'coz I'm very sleepy zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by Miss UK
Have a nice trip masseur! 1 request .. Bring me back some sunshine ;-)
Posted by masseur
I thought I always brought a little ray of sunshine to Esato
oh well. it was 20 degrees when I landed at 06.20 this morning and what a fantastic sight it was to see Sydney again as we came in from the North passing the city, harbour bridge and opera house
now in a coffee shop on wifi having done most of my required stuff and now just checking in here and watching the world go by
its nice to be home!
Posted by Davo_169
how do you find out the wifi hotspots in aussie land...is it in the phonebook or sumthin or is there a website....and is it free to connect with wifi??
hope you have a grand time
be sure to go see the lion king before it goes to melbourne...or is it already there??
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Posted by Jim
Hey masseur, mist your departure, well I was at school ... anyway, you don't forget my "special" request
?
Thank you and have fun
Posted by masseur
@davo, Telstra have a locations directory on their hotspot page but if I don't know where there is one I use my i-mate Jam with a wifi SD card to see if there is a wifi network available where I currently am and if so then I get my laptop out
@Jim, not forgotten
already done in fact
I'm at Sydney airport again right now just about to board a Qantas flight up to Townsville for the weekend. big family BBQ tomorrow!
Posted by methylated_spirit
Feeling a twang of longing, of home sickness yet? I cant imagine moving away from my home land, away from my family, friends, and all things familiar. How long have you been away?
Posted by Miss UK
Masseur har har :-D Meths! Well I left Scottyland pretty glad aswell that old village where im orig from has died I exspect
Posted by Sir-SonyEricsson-man
@masseur: hey man.. Ya know.. if you would fly with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) then you get Internett on board at all long nonstop flights worldwide.. Maybee a tought to change air company????????
Posted by masseur
really? I thought only Lufthansa was trialling on board internet access at the moment. hmm. SAS is also one world so I still get my points.
definitly worth considering next time!
Posted by Jim
Thanks masseur
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