Good morning Have you done your taxes yet? Or at least filed for an extension. If the former, I hope you’ve a nice big refund coming your way, and indeed, if you are so fortunate, why not, ummm, “invest” it in forming some rich memories you’ll treasure for years to come. This week I can […]
Good morning Our Christmas Markets “cruise” had another four people choose to participate last week. It is great to see Travel Insiders responding so positively to this new approach to enjoying a European pre-Christmas experience, and in a part of Europe that is all the much nicer for being slightly off the well-worn tourist trails. […]
Good morning You may have seen the story of the woman killed by a self-driving car in Tempe, AZ on Sunday. Any unnecessary death is of course regrettable, but the biggest tragedy of this unfortunate incident may be that this accident slows down and delays the continued development and deployment of self-driving vehicle capabilities. With […]
Good morning As mentioned, I’ve been traveling for most of this week and will be continuing into next week too. But I’ve had time to finally get all the details of our first ever ‘Christmas Land Cruise’ written down – and what a lot of details there are, due to so many inclusions and places […]
Currently air travel between the US and UK/EU is governed by what has been described as the most liberal open-skies deal ever agreed by Washington. But ‘liberal’ deals are not synonymous with consumer-advantageous deals. The EU/US open-skies agreement has encouraged a collapse in airline choices across the Atlantic. Apart from financially struggling Norwegian and other […]
Good morning Our Frontsight experience was enjoyed by all who attended over the last weekend, and most of the participants plan to return for another experience in the future. While the men stoically plinked away, including one gentleman who refused to let his bad leg and cane interfere, I do want to call out the […]
When Boeing closed its 757 production line in 2004, and orders for the 767 dried up, it was left with a gap in its product range between the largest 737 and the smallest 787. (Ignore the number sequencing – in terms of size, the current lineup runs from 737 to 787 to 777 to 747.) […]
Good morning And greetings from Pahrump, NV; an unincorporated locality best known for having a concentration of ‘houses of ill repute’. Although they are widely spread apart, through some mystery of the maps, each claims to be the closest to Las Vegas (Clark County, where Las Vegas is situated does not allow such places). We […]
Good morning First of all, a word about our touring schedule for the year. We are starting to get down to the wire for the Triple K tour to Kiev, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan this May, so if you’re thinking of coming, please let me know. Also, strangely, this year there’s not yet a lot of […]