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…
Sometimes people, me, find essence, meaning and sentiment in the most lifeless – inanimate things in this world. A ticket, a photo, a torn piece of paper, a book, a pen, an empty perfume bottle, our travel memorabilia. On other occasions, even non-personal things may convey and send out vibes that could trigger drops of…
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/
Among numerous destinations in Greece to spend Orthodox Easter, Corfu is definitely one of the top five. It was a glorious morning on Saturday when we arrived at Igoumenitsa Harbour. After a quick coffee and an even quicker and swifter process of ticket issuing, we boarded the ferry boat and set off for the island…
I still remember my first trip to Korea, when I was asked to enrol on the air miles scheme of Korean Air. After a quick meeting in Helsinki I was to fly to Seoul via Frankfurt and I can still remember walking to the Transfers Desk and being asked to put down some personal details…
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…
If you cant bother with online booking processes, start a contest and ask people to come up with the cheapest flight ticket. Crowdsourcing in travel! http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130304-need-a-flight-start-a-contest
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…
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