Did you know pilots don’t eat shellfish while on duty? I did not know it. 1. Pilots may spend long periods of time away from home. To keep their loved ones close, they’ll often keep photos of their family or spouses in the inside lining of their hat. 2. You couldn’t buy a shrimp cocktail…
I have always wanted to know this and finally I found out: “The purpose of dimming lights for take-off and landing is to ensure the cabin environment matches the exterior environment. This is done in preparation for a potential evacuation at dusk or at night. Going from a bright lit cabin environment to one that’s…
This is according to G Adventures 2013 Happiness Survey; at least 83% of respondents “said travel is very important to their happiness. In fact, in terms of making people happy travel was deemed more important than marriage and having a baby.” “According to the survey, travelling is more important to women than men. While men…
I was in a bookshop and I browsed a book about the history of the visa. It was fascinating and later I decided to read it fully and ordered it online. But what I received was the above book by Martin Loyd about the history of the passport and not of the visa, my mistake…
This is the list of the most viewed 10 posts on this blog until March and their ranking (most viewed at the top). The first paragraph/sentence for each post is under the link. 1. Boeing 797 It can comfortably fly 10,000 Miles (16,000 km) at Mach 0.88 or 654 mph (1,046 km/h) with 1000 passengers…
My wife and I did a tour with them a few years ago, it was the Canada West tour ‘Hoodapus’. It was comfortable as I didn’t have to worry about driving and I liked to concept of jumping on/off the van. We wanted to spend more time in Jasper so we ‘jumped off’ and took…
I mentioned yesterday about the Antarctica Celebrity Cruise and today is about Quark Expeditions that I came across some time ago. The North Pole cruise seems interesting. Day 1 Helsinki, Finland Day 2 Embarkation Day in Murmansk Day 3-7 Northbound in the Arctic Ocean Day 8 90° North Day 9 Southbound in the Arctic Ocean…
The music and the lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU “I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue, And clouds of white. The bright blessed day, The dark sacred night. And I think to myself, What a…
I recently wrote about the service from Canada Post to send a postcard anywhere in the world wherever you are and I wanted to test it by sending a postcard to … me. I went for a custom design and you have various options to use photos from: At one step I had the message: “The…
I used to have 1 or 2 drinks in the lounge and in the business class, they are free I reasoned so why not. After a while I stopped drinking almost completely, I should not drink just because they are free I reasoned again. I should listen to my body and my body did not…