Flight prices!

Flight prices are just so annoying! We've just spent the last couple of weeks trying to get a good price on 2 flights to Male, Maldives travelling from London. Last year we paid just under £1000 for two seats on regular scheduled flights but this year it's shot up to a best price of £1350.

I'm not so surprised that the ticket price is more expensive than last year given the rising cost of fuel, but what is really annoying is that this price rise seems to be focused on what is perceived by many as a luxury destination. A quick check to other places in the Indian Ocean such as Mauritius would seem to confirm this. But my guess is that airlines think anyone going to these places has pots of cash and will just pay whatever the cost

What's especially annoying, although great for anyone going there, is that despite the rising fuel costs, flights to the US seem to actually be getting cheaper. I can easily go to the LA or San Diego, a similar distance as Male, for a mere £400 per seat in the same time period. I guess the airlines simply feel that anyone travelling east beyond the Mediterranean are easy pickings.

So hopefully we'll get our tickets to Denver in January at a super-duper knocked down price - fat chance!

I just won an iPod Touch

I got home from work to be presented with a gift from Sheila. I was a bit confused as I wasn't expecting anything, so I kind of cautiously opened the box while she was telling me it was to make up for the big bill I would be getting to have her wedding and engagement rings repaired. Still confused the box revealed an Apple iPod Touch and although I was completely knocked out with it I was still a bit confused that she would spend even more money to make up for me having to fork out a lot of money in the first place.

Anyway it turned out that she, or rather I, had won it in a competition that one of the local papers had been running and she had entered using my name.

Wow! - what a prize. This is one really nice gadget that is great to look at and fantastic to use. Everything it does it does very well and with a lot of style. I absolutely love it so much so that now I'd definitely replace it if I lost or broke it, and you can't say that about too many things.