On the way back to London, after a great, exquisite, superb, beautiful 3-week stay Down Under, i was to make a stop-over in Singapore. I had decided that i could stay overnight and spend less than 24 hours to check a place i had never seen before. One of the things i did, and i…
Having to go through a 15-hour flight ordeal including a stop-over and an overnight sleep in Chicago, was not an easy task, even if destination was Hawaii. The mental preparation had to take time! … I think we had spent something like 30 minutes wandering aimlessly at Heathrow T3 (was it T3?) Duty Free looking…
I always wondered in my life how much would be the time a man would/could spend with his woman of his dreams in a single location e.g. in a deserted island with no one else around. How long could one stand? A week? A month? A year? You see, no matter how much in love…
Many a times people complain about practicalities of or occurrences in travel be it airports, airplanes, delays, cancellations, long-haul flights, boring or smelly co-passengers, crappy food, lousy service, etc etc – the list is endless. I myself have complained about those and about a dozen more. The truth of the matter is that indeed some…
If you look in the sky and wonder “Which flight is this?”, this is an interesting site, among many, to help you out http://www.flightradar24.com/
In 1997 and for the whole of the spring semester I participated in a course on environmental engineering in Lund, Sweden as part of a University Erasmus program. For me, environmental engineering and the whole environment preservation was something new. The phrase mostly used was sustainable development and I have to confess that only when…
A number of times I have been lucky enough to fly business, mainly for long haul. Still, wearing a suit, a tie, a shirt and tight shoes while trying to sit as comfortably as possible on an inclined – or even flat – seat, is something I would not normally suggest. So, after my first…
It was May, many years ago when I had to combine both business and pleasure in my first – and only one until today- round the world trip I have ever executed. The whole thing started with the departure of flight KE908 around 22:00 on a Saturday of May.The first destination was Korea, which is…
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