Archive for the 'travel' Category

Things to do in Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal 1 (AUH)

Get out, seri­ously, get out, spend as lit­tle time as pos­si­ble there. It made it to the top of my world’s worst air­port ter­mi­nals list, beat­ing JFK Jet blue ter­mi­nal hands down. You’re out of luck if you want some­thing to eat in T1, your only choice is Costa cof­fee. If you have plenty of time (90+ […]

Doing the impossible at Heathrow

I’ve done a stu­pid thing. I have booked a flight from T5 to Edin­burgh, that’s not the prob­lem though. The prob­lem is it leaves 65 min­utes after my first flight arrives into T1 !! So„„ T1 to T5 in 65 min­utes on air­side… Is it doable? The min­i­mum “legal con­nec­tion” is 90 min­utes accord­ing to BAA.com […]

The price

Missed the turn and paid the price, 19 miles round trip just to get back where I was. Share on Facebook

Getting to Zambia

My sis­ter is get­ting mar­ried in Lusaka in Zam­bia. Below is a quick list of air­lines and how you can get to Zam­bia from Europe and the Mid­dle East. FLIGHTS Fly­ing to Lusaka Air­port (IATA Air­port code: LUN) Direct flights from Europe: British Air­ways from Lon­don Heathrow (LHR). Every Wednes­day, Fri­day, Sun­day. A com­pre­hen­sive list is on: […]

The ideal birthday cake for the frequent flier

This made me laugh. This was received by some­one I know, the guy lives on a plane, usu­ally in the front on British Air­ways, usu­ally in First Class, and in the best seat in the house 1A. The level of details is amaz­ing. Won­der if it tastes as good as it looks Share on Facebook

BBC Box

From Gwyd http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8193518.stm “I think Subhi has been fur­ther than the BBC box this year…” LOL Share on Facebook

The flying sheep!

So how do you get a sheep up a power line? The answer is easy. Just look at the pic­ture above From the lit­tle I man­aged to under­stand from google trans­la­tion the story goes. The sheep got stuck on the power line fur­ther up the hill, where the sheep graze and  the wire is closer to the […]

Edinburgh’s Fringe Strangest Venues

Now that Edin­burgh fringe fes­ti­val is about to start, the city is full of fresh hope­fuls, with their bright eyes enjoy­ing the glitz and glam­our a fes­ti­val brings. Only a hand­ful will come back next year, I love the naïve view that they have, think­ing that the city has not seen any­thing like them before […]

Arghhhh. Travel Insurance

ARGH “£$^&^”%& I am writ­ing this to serve as a warn­ing to those of you in sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion, and don’t know it yet. Looks like the travel insur­ance I have doesn’t have cover for missed con­nec­tions.My flight on Amer­i­can Air­lines from Hon­olulu to San Fran­cisco was diverted to San Jose due to fog and the aircraft […]

Toblerone

You know when you’re in a small time back­wa­ter air­port when they don’t sell Toblerone in the duty free shop:) –RW Share on Facebook