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We were told the Beatles had probably never visited Kazakhstan, which made the instalment even more bizarre/ unexpected.
Something in common with Borat!

Wish Qantas would hurry up with their Haneda plans, need to lock in my annual August trip and taking a group with me. 1st China trip for the year locked and loaded in 6 weeks with CX, looking forward to going back to the Swissotel Foshan.
June sees a trip to Friedenshaffen pencilled in, probably J ex DPS to ZRH and then get the ferry across Lake Constance after the train, looking forward to seeing both the Zepplin and Dornier museums.
 
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This one slipped me by...... current bookings for 2025 are:
  • Jan - finishing off Christmas in Lake Tahoe trip and arriving in Spain (was cheaper to end there) on NYE, then off on a road trip for a few days
  • Jan - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay (IYKYK)
  • Feb/Mar - Perth (and the far surrounds)
  • April - Georgia
  • May/Jun - Sri Lanka
  • August - Greenland (expedition cruise)
Plans to be nutted out still for Georgia and Sri Lanka, thinking of maybe hiring a car in Sri Lanka and road tripping but need to see how viable that is.
+ Maldives in June, popping down there at the end of the trip.
 
Pretty full on 2025 planned, but very much looking forward to it all…🥳

March/April work trip: london, madrid, barcelona, new york, toronto
May/June work trip: washington dc, hamburg, munich, new york, chicago
June-August 40th birthday trip (2 x SQ F, 2 x SQ J, 1 x AF J - all redemptions): paris, málaga, torremolinos, sevilla, granada, córdoba, madrid, bilbao, san sebastián, barcelona, sitges, valencia, berlin, zurich
September work trip: baltimore
October/November work trip: prague, amsterdam, berlin, chicago
Xmas family trip: sydney
Squeezed in an early May family trip to spend time with my 5yo niece in Hong Kong via plentiful QF redemptions on the MEL-HKG route (and a side day-trip to Shenzhen on a food safari with brother in law). Will be the first time I’ve been back since the infamous protests. Very keen to see how HKG has changed since then - hope there’s at least still some signs of life left in LKF / Soho / Noho! The food scene used to be amazing there…
Icing on the cake will be to spend a ridiculous amount of time at HKG lounges - IMO the best airport in the world for lounges…

As it stands, i’ll only be home for 21 days between late March and mid August 🙃 basically my apartment’s main purpose in 2025 is to store furniture…I guess this is the aspirational way of life for AFF’ers 😎 Can’t bloody wait!
 
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Ok not as impressive as the others 🤣
But here’s HAM’s Beatle-Platz
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Forgot about this until I was going through some photos tonight

Went wandering about Reforma in Mexico City in Nov ‘24 (as you do) and passed by the Four Seasons and was confused what all the barricades and commotion was about - Paul McCartney was in town and due to exit the hotel (see ‘happiness is seeing paul’ sign)

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We are doing a quick trip to Spain in early March, on way to visit family Norway.

Itinerary is:
Day 1: fly into Barcelona 7am
Day 2: Barcelona
Day 3: Travel to Madrid on train 7-9.35am
Day 4: Travel to Malaga via train 8.30-11.30am
Day 5 to 10: Tour Andalucia using YourAndalusia local tour company
Day 11: flight to Norway from Malaga

Is Aerobus best way to get from airport into Barcelona?
IS Barcelona pass worthwhile getting and where is best place to purchase?

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We are doing a quick trip to Spain in early March, on way to visit family Norway.

Itinerary is:
Day 1: fly into Barcelona 7am
Day 2: Barcelona
Day 3: Travel to Madrid on train 7-9.35am
Day 4: Travel to Malaga via train 8.30-11.30am
Day 5 to 10: Tour Andalucia using YourAndalusia local tour company
Day 11: flight to Norway from Malaga

Is Aerobus best way to get from airport into Barcelona?
IS Barcelona pass worthwhile getting and where is best place to purchase?

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No idea about aerobus but the pricing for the BCN pass seems a tad on the exy side - unless the bus ticket is for 48 hours instead of 24. Depends where you’re staying, having an extra day of the bus might be handy if you’re going up to Montjuïc for the national art gallery and Miro museum. But you can really do the bus in half a day if you’re not going up the mountain (two routes from memory). The only other place the bus is good for is Park Guell (Sagrada is very accessible around Eixample). So buying the single items you only need separately could work out to be cheaper especially if you don’t want to be forced into two days of the bus (go to the official sites for sagrada and park guell instead of the third party tourist ticketing sites and tally up the costs for comparison). The Museum of the History of Catalonia next to the marina is also an underrated gem that most tourists seem to overlook and so it can be a very quiet enjoyable experience of BCN’s storied and long history dating back to roman and medieval times…my 2 cents…
 
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No idea about aerobus but the pricing for the BCN pass seems a tad on the exy side - unless the bus ticket is for 48 hours instead of 24. Depends where you’re staying, having an extra day of the bus might be handy if you’re going up to Montjuïc for the national art gallery and Miro museum. But you can really do the bus in half a day if you’re not going up the mountain (two routes from memory). The only other place the bus is good for is Park Guell (Sagrada is very accessible around Eixample). So buying the single items you only need separately could work out to be cheaper especially if you don’t want to be forced into two days of the bus (go to the official sites for sagrada and park guell instead of the third party tourist ticketing sites and tally up the costs for comparison). The Museum of the History of Catalonia next to the marina is also an underrated gem that most tourists seem to overlook and so it can be a very quiet enjoyable experience of BCN’s storied and long history dating back to roman and medieval times…my 2 cents…
Thanks for your thoughts
 
I think it is good value. Just looked up the 2 parks, the bus turistico for 24 hours plus the aerobus 1 way and it came to ~160 euro ie $A250.
Sagrada and Parc Guell are must dos IMHO. We also got the Bus turistico as we were staying at the hilton diagonal a fair way out of the centre but a bus stop near by. with their ticket we got a few other discounts.
And if you do the touristy thing and walk down Las Ramblas becareful of the pick pockets. They are constant but again IMHO they are pretty clumsy.
 
I think it is good value. Just looked up the 2 parks, the bus turistico for 24 hours plus the aerobus 1 way and it came to ~160 euro ie $A250.
Sagrada and Parc Guell are must dos IMHO. We also got the Bus turistico as we were staying at the hilton diagonal a fair way out of the centre but a bus stop near by. with their ticket we got a few other discounts.
And if you do the touristy thing and walk down Las Ramblas becareful of the pick pockets. They are constant but again IMHO they are pretty clumsy.
Thanks Ron. That is very helpful. What areas would you recommend to stay. I have a few IHG points but not wedded to any hotel scheme in particular.
 
The last time we stayed in Barcelona was before getting on a cruise so we stayed close to the port. so i am not sure where you would be best to stay. However on our last stay there we visited an Art noveau hospital which was completed in 1930. it closed a few years ago and I think only available to visit since the Pandemic. It is an amazing place and well worth seeing. Not far from the Sagrada familia.
 
The last time we stayed in Barcelona was before getting on a cruise so we stayed close to the port. so i am not sure where you would be best to stay. However on our last stay there we visited an Art noveau hospital which was completed in 1930. it closed a few years ago and I think only available to visit since the Pandemic. It is an amazing place and well worth seeing. Not far from the Sagrada familia.
Looks like a very interesting place.
 

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