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Although I travel a lot, I never really learned to embrace the experience of traveling. I find it tiring, boring, wasteful, dangerous and thoroughly unpleasant. Occasionally though, “stuff” happens that stops me dead in my tracks in disgust, shock, amusement or plain disbelief. This blog is about telling some of these travel stories, which are largely true but with a certain degree of embellishment on my part.
I took the short flight from London to Amsterdam last Sunday. I had an aisle seat and a middle-aged couple joined me; the woman taking the window seat and her oversized husband the middle one. He could just about push-fit…
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Unless you have just come out of prison after serving a 75-year sentence (what could you have done to get such a long stretch?), you must have experienced the safety instructions given on commercial airlines. They vary from one airline…
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I wish I could live in Venice or Stockholm. Venice makes sense because I visited the city more than once and had the opportunity to get a sense of its atmospheric beauty, drama and romance. Stockholm however, does not make…
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7:00 am at Dubai Airport late May 2017 on my way to Larnaca, Cyprus. The gate was one of those where you are bussed to the plane parked well away from the building. The practice at that airport is to…
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Going through security checks at Riyadh Airport where, as in every other international airport, you have to empty your pockets and rid yourself of anything remotely metallic, by placing it in the obligatory tray to push through the X-Ray machine. …
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I recently traveled from London to Larnaca with British Airways on a flight scheduled for 11:40. Earlier that morning, I unnecessarily woke up around 3:30; more than 8 hours before take off. Unable to return to sleep, I finally sat…
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Last Tuesday night Claire was getting ready to return to England when I declared to her one of two problems I had, thinking that maybe I shouldn’t overburden her with worry before her flight back. “I think I am getting…
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How to out-stupid the most stupid travellers over a bunch of teabags and a jar of bee secretion
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What noise gets your teeth on edge? Is it scraping of a sharp object across the blackboard? Could it be the drip, drip sound of a water tap? Maybe it is slurping soup, or the leaking sound from the headphones…
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