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No comments onPro tip: if you can’t find a water fountain in an airport (common in the UK), don’t feel at all shy to ask a cafe for a cup, or to fill up your bottle. In my experience they’re almost always happy to oblige.
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Oasis Hong Kong – a review
There are a few reasons why I decided to go to Hong Kong for my holiday. Relatives, culture, shopping, food, gadgets, China, Macau and Disneyland were all factors. The biggest factor, however, was a new airline called Oasis Hong Kong that was selling return tickets for £275 (including everything). £275 is significantly less than flights…
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Fire Alert at Heathrow
I was sitting in the lounge area of Terminal 3 in Heathrow when the PA system came on. “This is a security announcement. All passengers are reminded that baggage should-” A sharp beeping interrupted the message. “A fire alarm has been activated in your area. Please go to the nearest emergency exit immediately. A fire…
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Star formation
Another long-haul flight, another blog post. After I’ve exhausted the in-flight movies, this month’s issues of Scientific American and the New Yorker, listened to one and a half episodes of In Our Time, and even done some work, I’ve had to fall back to the option of last resort – writing a post for this…
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Terminal 3
After a while, you begin to realise that the only times you get to sit down and update your weblog is when you physically cannot do anything else; on a bus, in jail, or in an airport. Well, that’s not quite true. I could read a magazine or a book, or gaze at the various…
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Let me back in
Right now I’m on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, to attend the E3 convention. I have inevitably ended up directly behind someone who has chosen to tilt his seat back as far as it can go, and slightly further besides. This sort of thing is like the tragedy of the commons – if…
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A Passage to Bangalore
(First part online – other parts being written) A Passage to India has always been one of my most hated books. Perhaps it’s because we were forced to read it in school. Perhaps it was the way in which our class had to take turns read out aloud the entire damn thing. Or perhaps it’s…
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American Airlines Boarding Procedures
REVIEW – AMERICAN AIRLINES BOARDING PROCEDURE I have the dubious distinction of being a frequent flier now. A distinction, because it means I get to fly to a lot of interesting places and see a lot of interesting people. Dubious, because it would be even better if I got to fly in business class instead…
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Altitude
The woman sitting next to me on the plane was snoring. The roar of the engines drowned most of the noise out, but she was definitely snoring. It was the more common variety of snoring, with a regular rattling sound as air passed through her nose by her epiglottis, not one of the rare snorers…
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Singapore
I’m writing this from the improbably clean and tidy Singapore International Airport. I’ve just gotten off a 13 hour flight from Manchester, and I’m feeling surprisingly okay; Singapore Airline is pretty good. The plane had a very impressive entertainment system with the usual complement of movies and TV shows, but more importantly, they had about…
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