This is turning out to be a mini-series, the last bit being about you never pay enough attention when traveling, so it’s more like a memo-to-self. The outgoing trip from IST to ALA starts totally on the wrong foot: despite my confirmed reservation, and despite being at the check-in counter well over one hour prior [...]
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I was mostly lucky, weather-wise, but this is no Mediterranean island: +50 °C summers and -30 °C winters remind you that you’re sitting between Siberia and the Gobi desert Although it has huge oil reserves, dirt-cheap gas is not part of a Venezuelan-style social contract; regular sells for about $1/liter – having said that, kazakhis [...]
What did I learn about…? This is the kind of question you ask yourself on long-haul return flights: you’d hope that after 48 or 72 hours in a foreign country you visit for the first time, you’d know it a little better than you did before. In this case, I had a very easy comparison, [...]
With an appropriately dramatic evening sky
The second post in a two-post miniseries about one of my eternal loves: travel gear. After having suffered through years of inferior bags, a few months ago I finally managed to achieve near-perfection with the roller made by Thule I covered in this post. This left my travel needs uncovered at the low end: while [...]
Not going to try to extol the virtues of leaving for a trip at dawn, but otherwise you never get to see this stuff. HDR processors, my ass !
One of the most exciting experiences when traveling on business is a free uograde. Past are the days when companies would pay for business class or even first on very long haul flights, most business travel nowadays – at least at my level – happens in coach. However, I had my fair share of upgrades [...]
Ever since the invention of private browsing mode the suspicion was there that it was merely a way to avoid being catched for surfing porn. Or at least, so I am told. Now the good folks at Bitter Wallet give us at least one legit reason to use it, which is to fool some shady [...]
Ever. I use trains in Italy and France; some of the trains I use go from Italy to France and viceversa. I have never used a train in Germany. Yet the best ever iPad application to check train schedules, especially when you cross borders is done by Deutsche Bahn, which obviously must access a database [...]
