Hey folks. I'm on holidays. After a big year, I'm taking a three week break and I'm loving it already.
So what's the Jones Family doing this Christmas/New Year season? Yours truly flexed his web-savvy fingers and found some relatively inexpensive flights to Hong Kong. We're off to see my sister and bro-in-law who've been working as volunteers at Crossroads (think humanitarian eBay) for about 5 years - we're waaay overdue for a visit. My sister is talking about getting us involved in these life experiences she runs called "Slum Survivor" where you experience poverty first hand. That's a change from the newspaper business, to say the least.
The tech side of the story (there always is) is that I managed to find the cheapest flights on webjet. The next step was to take that quote to the bricks-and-mortar Flight Centre which promptly undercut the price by $40. Yes, I do love the Internet. Sure, that's not a massive saving, but they did spend a few hours with us in person checking alternatives and seating etc. so I reckon that's value.
Enjoy the break if you're getting one, and Happy Christmas.
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