I’ve been searching for bike medical journey insurance coverage to cowl my accomplice’s forthcoming journey to Vietnam. She is a twin Australian/Vietnamese citizen. All Australian insurers require her to have an Australian bike licence. Since she solely has a Vietnamese licence she can’t get hold of cowl. D. Anderson, Melbourne Vic

As a Vietnamese citizen, your accomplice could be allowed to trip a motorbike in Vietnam assuming her licence remains to be present. Nevertheless as you say, since she doesn’t have an Australian bike licence she can’t get hold of bike cowl from an Australian journey insurance coverage supplier. If she was to trip a motorbike or scooter in Vietnam it could be at her personal danger.

Vietnam is a signatory to the Vienna Conference on Street Site visitors (1968) whereas Australia is a signatory to the 1949 conference. Meaning Australian drivers’ licences and Worldwide Driving Permits (IDP) issued in Australia are usually not legitimate in Vietnam. Except they convert their Australian licence to a Vietnamese licence, Australian licence holders are usually not permitted to drive a automotive or trip a motorcycle or scooter in Vietnam. With no licence that’s legitimate for the nation you’re in, any journey insurance coverage you may have that covers you for motorized vehicle accidents whereas in command of a automobile wouldn’t be legitimate.

Our grownup kids and their households will meet us subsequent July within the UK. As lodging shall be costly and scarce, are you able to advise a city with enough lodging choices for seven and inside rail commuting distance of London? L. Van de Velde, Brunswick Vic

Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton are all potential candidates nonetheless the price of rail journey to central London goes to cancel out any financial savings you may make on lodging within the capital whereas the journey time to central London – barely over an hour – will grow to be tedious when you plan to make common journeys into town.

My selection could be to remain someplace on the outskirts of London, and Greenwich, Richmond, Hampstead and Windsor all qualify. Other than Windsor, journey time to central London is properly below an hour, you may have a selection of a slower however scenic bus journey or sooner however completely non-scenic London Underground and every of those places has loads of native curiosity. Every additionally has a selection of lodging, from Airbnb to bed-and-breakfast to resorts. Sawdays [sawdays.co.uk] has some prime stays.

My onward Lufthansa flight from Munich has simply been cancelled and the brand new scheduled flight means I shall be on the airport from 6am to 10pm. Any strategies as what to do with all this “spare” time? M. Grabacki, Richmond Vic

With an early arrival you may need to clean up in one of many airport’s pay-for-use lounges, and Airport Lounge World [munich-airport.com] is one of the best wager because it has showers and extra space than the Airport Lounge Europe. Journey time into town from Munich Airport is 40 minutes by the S-Bahn and the Grey Line [grayline.com] has a hop-on, hop-off bus tour that makes a circuit of town in about 2½ hours. Stops embody the Central Station, the place the S-Bahn from the airport terminates, the Kunstareal, town’s arts and museum quarter, BMW World and Museum, a futuristic take a look at what you may be driving within the subsequent decade, and the English Backyard, one among Europe’s largest metropolis parks. One other cease is Nymphenburg Palace, a baroque marvel with a frontage wider than the Palace of Versailles. The Magnificence Gallery has a portrait of Lola Montez, the Irish dancer and courtesan, well-known because the mistress of King Ludwig I. The cease at Marienplatz is near the Hofbrauhaus, Munich’s most well-known beer corridor and one of many world’s oldest.

My husband and I need to fly into Santiago then go to the Atacama and the Galapagos Islands and presumably Torres del Paine. What could be one of the best time of yr to cowl all these inside about 4-5 weeks. Do we have to use a journey agent? Okay. Lindsay, Northbridge NSW

The hotter season between December and June are optimum for visiting the Galapagos. For the Atacama and Chile typically, March to Could and September to December are preferrred whereas for Torres del Paine, March to Could, after the summer time crowds have left. General, March might be the candy spot to start your travels, first to Torres del Paine, then the Galapagos and at last Santiago. Except you have been to South America earlier than you positively want a journey agent. Melbourne-based South America Tourism Workplace [southamericatourism.com] could be my first selection.

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