Blog reborn… (This is not a Phoenix Egg..!)

After several years of inactivity, I finally updated this blog to make it back to work.

The most trouble is the disappearance of “Picasa Web Album” service. There were plenty of photo albums to store in the Google Cloud Service. But it has already been discontinued in 2016.

Picasa Web Albums (PWA) was an image hosting and sharing web service from Google, often compared to Flickr and similar sites. The service links with Google’s photo organizing desktop program Picasa. It was discontinued in May 2016 and succeeded by Google Photos which does not support sharing photo albums on the public world wide web. It allowed users with a Google account to store and share photos in public albums with an initial free storage offering of 15 GB, that is shared with Gmail and Google Drive. Storage was unlimited for photos of resolution less than 2048×2048 pixels for Google+ users, and for photos of resolution less than 800×800 for everyone else. Videos shorter than 15 minutes also don’t count towards the limit. Once the storage is full, uploaded photos are automatically resized to fit the resolution for unlimited storage.

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Travel in Sydney – Part One

28 Dec 下午從布里斯本出發!下面照片是28 + 29,兩天的份。

這是我跟Christine,在2010年Dec出發去雪梨,參加跨年煙火的紀錄。
想要到雪梨去看煙火,其實挑戰很多的;
首先,也是最重要的,是搞定住宿問題。
我們是拖到九月底才找住宿的地方,所以,手頭上沒有甚麼可以選的。
Backpacker,ㄟ,雖然便宜,大約一晚30-40,可是卻全部店家都要求住宿十晚以上;
而且,很少Backpacker是有提供雙人房的,大部分都是四人或六人以上。
這樣看看,恩,乾脆去住等級高一點的,三四星級的飯店好了。
所以,最後選擇了Ibis Sydney,Airport;這家自稱有四星級的等級。
(不要拿台灣的標準來看澳洲的飯店……如果真要比較,通常降個半星到一星會比較適合)

這樣五晚的價錢,大概加起來就是一千澳幣上下。(每一晚的價錢都不同。跨年夜的那晚,印象是285一個雙人房)

接下來,就是機票了。坐JetStar的廉價航空,每個人也要250左右。不算便宜,因為有聽到朋友成功搶到一百多的機票。

結論是!要去就要早點做規劃,快點下手訂機票 + 住宿。九月底真的太晚了!