Travel Apps

These are some of the apps we have used while travelling. Some are country specific, and some you can use anywhere.

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App icon App name Information about App How to get the App Where to use the App
Tripit Great app to plan your trips, simple to use and has both a free and Pro plan. (We use the Pro plan.) Tripit

Or the App Store.
Everywhere in the world!
Wise money This app allows you to manage you money while travelling, allowing you to carry multiple currencies on one card. Wise card

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Or from the App Store.
Everywhere in the world!
Grab Use Grab for taxi's and motorcycle taxis. Used through much of South East Asia; it's a bit like Uber. Grab

Or from the App Store.
Mainly around South East Asia.

Today we went to Universal Studios Beijing as we like a theme park, and this one has been built and run like a US theme park; clean, well looked after and generally excellent all round. There isn’t anything we could fault here, other than setting the seed that if we were to pop over to...

Conveniently located down the road from our hotel, this UNESCO world heritage site (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/881/) should have been easy to organise a visit to. However, the complexities of arranging anything independently made obtaining tickets a BIG deal…..how hard can it be I hear you ask… well I’ll tell you… Normally a visit to the internet would...

It seems to get worse … The taxi drives us from the airport, it’s quite a long drive as the airport is situated someway from the city of Beijing. All is going well and I’m tracking the progress of our taxi using Apple Maps which actually works quite well in Beijing. travelling from south to...

What a welcome to Beijing!!! NOT!!! The announcement on the aircraft, to my ears, was along the lines of if you don’t record fingerprints when you arrive at Daxing International Airport (Beijing) you are likely to be deported; that didn’t feel like the welcome I was expecting!! Anyway, we are pretty much compliant with authorities...

So, our last day in Hong Kong, and the end of the trip in our first country. We’ve had a great few days here, but took it a little easier on the last day as we’ve worn ourselves out pretty much with all the walking. BTW, we’ve been keeping a track of our steps through...