Flying in Concorde – what was it like?
Sadly Concorde stopped flying in 2003. This was due to the Paris airport crash of 2000, the general downturn in the commercial aviation industry as well as increasing maintenance costs. The world suddenly became a bigger place again on 25th October, the day after it stopped flying. Much has been written about Concorde’s history, celebrity…
Navigating the Kerala Backwaters by Houseboat
How many trips are inspired by a work colleague’s computer background? Des sits opposite me and had this stunning sunset on his PC screen. I later found out it to be the Kerala Backwaters in India. Now I just need a reason to visit the Kerala Backwaters As luck would have it a friend of…
What’s it like to win your own private jet?
I’d stumbled across a competition in London’s Evening Standard last April for “1 lucky winner and 49 friends to fly to Stockholm in their own private jet!”. This was to celebrate 10 years of British Airways flying out of London City Airport. To enter all I had to do was provide a “fact” about Sweden!…