So ... you've been on the road for twelve days straight and you're tired, cranky and feeling like you've been rolled in a sandpit for a week.

Some parents should be hung for the names they give their children. Some are awkward, some are silly, some we just don't like and some are so 'out there' you just know the parents had to be indulging in an illicit substance when they got the idea.

Hotel managements around the globe try a variety of devices to get guests to do what they want but often they hesitate to ask for it straight up.

The Japanese are wonderful people, no question. But they aren't the biggest bunch of blokes and sheilas in the world.

Travelling on China's internal airlines is an experience - for many reasons including the ability to shoehorn fifty per cent more paying passengers on each flight than anywhere else in the known universe.

Criticism of airline food is the standard fare of the traveller all over the globe. We in Australia love to denigrate the dishes served up to us as we soar through the skies.

Years ago former Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, was lampooned for his support of a radical innovation: a car that ran on hydrogen fuel instead of petrol.