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How to Buy Paris Metro Mobilis Card

Paris offers a lot of sighseeings, from the bronze coloured (official color name is brownish gray) Eiffel Tower, to magnificent Notre Dame Catedral, to the only Disneyland in Europe.

For tourists, the best and convenient way to explore Paris is by underground train, called as Metro and complemented by RER suburban train. 16 Metro lines, together with 5 lines of RER cover almost all part of Paris.

Paris Metro Map

You can download Paris Metro and RER map in PDF format. But for latest and official map and fare, you should consult Paris RATP website.

There are some options in paying this Metro RER fare. The common for tourists is to buy carnette (also known as T+ ticket). It is a small card (domino card size) with magnetic strip on the back. Valid for one journey in inner Paris zone 1, costs EUR 1.60 if you buy it single or a pack of 10 carnette for EUR 11.60 (EUR 5.80 for children). For moderate sighseeing in a day, we may only need 4-5 carnettes so a pack of 10 carnettes should be enough if you only have 2 days in Paris.

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ASEAN Pass, a cheap way to travel by flying

Have you ever heard about ASEAN Pass? Well, probably not. I myself have just heard it today, too. Not from Indonesia government, not from travel agencies, but the offer comes from Malaysia Airlines ads in newspaper today (29/July).

Visit ASEAN
Pass

Visit ASEAN Pass (VAP) have been introduced by joint government of …

Mobile, Travel & Technology

Apple iPhone 3G S in Indonesia on August 09

According to CNET website, iPhone 3G S will be available in US and other 7 countries on 19 June 2009.

While in Indonesia, the launch date should be 9 August 2009. A good news? for customer is for sure. But for Telkomsel, I think they have plenty of old iPhone …

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Javamilk site is running again

Hi All, just a quick press to let you know that you might be experienced my JavaMilk.com website had been down for 3-4 days during last weekend. It was because my hosting provider 3fn.net had been shut down by US government for some reasons.

Now JavaMilk.com has …

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How to buy France SNCF TGV Train Online, in French!

When you want to arrange your travel itinerary in France or across Europe, you may stuck into France SNCF website to buy train tickets.

Before I continue about this, let's see what options do we have to buy Europe Train Ticket online:

  • www.raileurope.com - Use this if you live in USA
  • www.raileurope.co.uk - if you live in UK
  • www.raileurope.ca - for Canadian
  • www.raileurope.co.au - for Australia / NZ
  • www.raileurope.com.sg - for Singaporean
  • or contact your authorized local agent. For example is Pantravel in Indonesia, for more click here : To find out your local country travel agent

Those sites sell all train tickets inside Europe, e.g London to Paris Eurostar train, Paris-Amsterdam trains, etc. But querying these site (especially UK site) from time to time, I find that the ticket price quoted in the site is standard price, I seldom get promo fares. This means RailEurope may be offering you higher quote price.

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Buying Used Books

Buying used books? Why not. It's a cheap way to afford a book not by its cover but its content.

Living in Indonesia, usually we are accustomed to buying brand new books, glossy cover, and white color paper. Although paper is cheap here, but sometimes we need to think about saving money as well as saving the earth. We are not ready yet for buying second products, books in this case.

Local produced books are always cheaper than imported books, but you only get about half the knowledge because local writers don't have time and effort to write hundreds of pages book. If they write 200+ pages, editor will kick their ass and ask them to trim into less than less than 100 pages. Yeah, thick books don't sell well in Indonesia.

For online book shopping, we can use Gramedia Online, pay with credit card or transfer, and it will be shipped within 3-4 days to any Indonesia address. This online stores in not comprehensive, not all titles available as they are available in Gramedia stores in malls.

Now, if you are interested in imported books (a.k.a English written books), the most famous one is Amazon.com. Not only they sell books, they sell everything from electronics to house related things. And may be you don't know this, Amazon also sells used items.

Just like this example, a brand new book of DK Eyewitness London is sold at USD 16.50, while used books (if available) can be purchased only with USD 5.00. That's a great saving!

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Smart Internet Unlimited

Tired of using lame Indosat 3.5G Unlimited, I searched for alternative and cheap Internet mobile solutions. Tried Telkomsel Flashvolume based (300MB for IDR 100K) it worked pretty good aside from its price.

Since May 1st, 2009, Smart Telecom launches new Internet unlimited packages with affordable price. Smart nge-Jump Unlimited Internet is their full name. Wow, I should try then... FYI, Smart Telecom is a CDMA mobile phone carrier therefore its Internet feature requires CDMA mobile phone or CDMA Modem phone to operate, in short:you cannot use GSM-based modem like Huawei E220.

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Smart Jump Packages

Smart Internet Unlimited has some packages to choose:

Package Downstream (up to) Upstream (up to) Price (per month)
Regular 153.6 Kbps 128 Kbps n/a (15,000 / week)
1\. Silver 512 Kbps 128 Kbps 75,000
2\. Gold 1 Mbps 384 Kbps 120,000
3\. Platinum 3.1 Mbps 384 Kbps 150,000
4\. Ultimate 3.1 Mbps with public IP 1.8 Mbps 225,000

Those packages are available for postpaid and prepaid customers. For prepaid, even there are 1-day, 7-day, and 1-month packages.

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Travelling to Iceland

As one of European counties, Iceland has ben ranked as one of the most expensive destination for Americans and rest of the world. No wonder usually Iceland is not included in people's itinerary.

But recently as its economy collapse in late 2008, prices in Iceland have been falling up to 50 percent from normal.

Iceland
(image from www.smh.com.au)
What is Iceland capital city? Prepare your tongue to spell Reykjavik. It is quite big at you need several days to explore it. Car rental which started at USD 200 last year now is less 30%, not to mention lodging and hotels.

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