It’s been pretty good for travelling, quite handy for backing up pics on the road and I can quite happily spend hours on it playing inane games. Current favourites include Temple Run and F.Godmom from those DOS days gone by.

Yes, it is like a bigger iPhone minus the phone component, but it’s much nicer to read content on a bigger screen. I find myself preferring to catch up on news using Flipboard and Google Currents than browsing from my desktop.

The downside of the thing is that it prevents me from going to bed. Well, technically it gets me in bed sooner, reading and browsing, but I’m far less inclined to fall asleep. It’s amazing how many hours it so effortlessly sucks up. Other than that, the iPad is pretty muy bien.

When I was younger, my usual travel routine would be to pick up a copy of New Scientist from Smiths at Heathrow. It was my reading material of choice for those long haul flights. Somehow, unnoticed by me, over the next couple of years and many air miles later, I’ve completely forgotten about it until today. These days, I don’t have much of a departure lounge ritual apart from checking Facebook and sending out a tweet or two. If I’m to catch up on the recent developments in science, I’d just check my iPhone. Back then, print was king, now, you can just read it off the iPhone or if you’re feeling a bit flush, subscribe and read it off the iPad app.

Whether you notice it or not, things are changing, albeit slowly at times.

On the way to the Seychelles, we stopped of in Dubai for a bit. Last year, I’d only had the opportinity to hang around in the airport for some 8 hours before continuing my trip onto Singapore to see Jac.

Having seen what I’d seen, I can’t say that I rate it all that much. It’s just really hot, it’s not a place built for walking as there are no pavements and the roads are lined with all sorts of brands from across the globe including the ubiquitous Starbucks and MacD’s along with Nandos and Giordano.

The weather was pretty good, got rather hot during the day and quite chilly at night with temperatures of around 9/10^oC.

The days were spent walking around, eating Dairylea and cooking.

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