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Jan and Art Curtis, Tweed Heads
Sydney Morning Herald
After successfully using a system called PocketMail (a mini-laptop that fits in your pocket) to communicate with friends and relatives while touring through regional and country Australia, we took it with us on a recent five-month world trip. We don't have a computer, but for an outlay of $99 and a service fee of less than $10 a month (plus local phone calls to transmit and receive incoming emails), we were able to keep in contact with friends in Oz and other countries.
We also kept a daily travel diary and every few days we would send it back to up to 25 friends and relatives - in a single phone call of about a minute. Some of them kept a printout for us, which we are now able to tie in with our videos and photos.
We found local call numbers in America, Canada, England, Ireland and western Europe. Some were toll-free and some were timed, so a phone card was useful. In Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary we would phone the nearest adjoining country. We now keep in touch with overseas friends using the same system and a local 1300 number.
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