I still remember executing that very fruitful discussion with my manager in the summer of 2000 trying to conclude – just after 2 months in my new job and just before flying out for my first business trip in Nice, France – if it were for the company’s benefit (!) to attend a week-long business…
…For those of us that will probably never get to be astronauts. Earth seen from space
The mobile phone alarm rang and woke me up as if I was in some kind of trance courtesy of some late drinks the previous night! It was my first and last full day in Melbourne and I had to use my time wisely and efficiently. There was no time to waste! So I had…
The invitation to visit The Hague arrived in my inbox quite out of the blue and the decision to visit was a swift one. I had only 10 days to arrange travelling details and taking into account all other bits and pieces or bells and whistles, I had no time whatsoever to look for “things…
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…
I often get the question of how do i choose a travel destination. What has made me select Peru instead of Argentina, Canada instead of Chile, Australia instead of New Zealand? Of course in most instances the answer is as simple as … “that is the place I wanted to visit at that period of…
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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