Small “Just after Touching the runway” stories

You are in a flight… Seconds before landing… It is dead silent in the airplane’s cabin and the captain has just welcomed you in your new destination… Everybody is looking so relaxed, sleepy, happily bubbly about the new destination… The young student, the professional, the old couple, the family… Even kids and babies for some…

Athos – A world forgotten by time

The announcement that you are intending to visit Athos may normally raise some eyebrows. You see, Athos is a peninsula in the Greek north that is in no way compared to any other part of Greek, European or even global soil and as such it is not a regular travel destination. For starters, women are…

Neist Point Lighthouse, Isle of Skye, Scotland

I do believe that a great, mind-opening, soul-purifying and soul-fulfilling trip is not necessarily the furthest and the most “exotic”. You don’t need – and this applies to Europeans – to be flying to Bora Bora to have a trip you will always remember. Sometimes, you can have an unforgettable great trip even in your…

Diving in the Great Barrier Reef –

The twin engine plane was approaching from the South as we were getting ready to land at Cairns airport. A great 2,5-week trip Down Under that had started at Sydney and had continued through Brisbane at Fraser island, was to include Cairns and a three day boat diving in the Great Barrier Reef before finishing…