What is VOIP? Well I used it over Christmas to attempt a conversation with someone in Spain*. It was quite good as the person I was talking to heard my voice about 5 seconds after I spoke, and their voice often broke up into a weird ecohey, elongated, robotic mess. I said as such. They thought I was just being silly. But I was actually using VOIP phones.

Add to this the fact that I was extremely hung over and we’re literally talking about a mildly annoying situation to be involved in. VOIP technology is the technology used for voice communication over the internet, and it has basically meant we* can talk to people from the other side of the planet for a lot less that we used to. Calling someone in Australia* used to spend a small fortune using traditional comms giants such as BT (in fact only BT).

Anyway, the aim of this blog is to point out that if you can’t afford to go to a certain place such as Spain or Australia, then you can just phone them up and ask them how great the weather is, which is almost as fun and a lot cheaper. Unless you’re hung over or using VOIP, which is well good.

* Spain is a place you can travel to if you want.

*Australia is another place you can visit if you have the urge and about one thousand pounds to spare.

*By We I mean people in a general sense