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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 once worked for a multi-national company who organised an annual 3-day conference aimed at the 100 most senior employees of the company out of some 3,000. At great expense in time and money, we met, presented our success stories,…
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A medical centre in Bahrain run largely by Indians, charge you modest fees, take your picture; a copy of your passport/ID; X-ray your chest, take blood, urine and stool samples (sorry about that); measure your weight & height, and blood…
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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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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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