Good morning It has been an interesting week this week, and there are two feature articles following this morning’s newsletter. One is a farewell tribute to one of my favorite planes. Ungainly and ugly? Probably, although that enormous wing impresses me every time I see it. A delight to fly in, as a passenger? Most […]
Good morning Lots of touring news this morning. Our new Loire Valley Land Cruise in September has proven to be popular, with three people already signed up and another four expected to be joining them any day now. This is a wonderful way to see a great part of France at a lovely time of […]
Good morning While there are no attachments to this morning’s nice long newsletter, that is due to a quirk in how these emails work. I’ve actually been very busy this last week preparing the pages of information for our lovely Loire Valley “land cruise” in late September. You can see the main tour page here […]
Ever since 1967, the first week in January has seen the enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This year was no exception, with over 180,000 attendees from over 150 countries and over 4,500 exhibiting companies meeting in an enormous 2.5 million square foot exhibition, sprawling over the Las Vegas Convention Center and spilling into […]
All firearm owners should consider themselves obliged to be thoroughly conversant with safety issues and the law surrounding when and how their firearms can be used. They also need to be competent and comfortable with their firearms so that, whether for recreation or defensive purposes, they can appropriately handle the equipment and make the proper […]
Good morning Very few shopping days remaining until Christmas – but you already know that, I’m sure! This week’s newsletter is in slightly different form. I arrived home at 1.30am on Thursday morning and the rest of Thursday has been a bit of a jetlagged blur, during the course of which I wrote an article […]
Good morning Today sees me traveling to France for this year’s Christmas Markets tour, this time what we are calling a “land cruise”, based in Lille in Northern France and traveling around the region each day, rather than cruising along a river. I don’t expect a newsletter next week, but expect one the following week. […]
Good morning A week until Thanksgiving and, of course, those other two events that many of us are equally thankful for – Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Alas, I’m out of the country currently, so will be missing out on both the Thursday and Friday events, but return home in time for the last of […]
Unlike most people, I prefer a backpack to a roll-aboard suitcase. It holds almost as much, and is easier to shove underneath a seat if the overhead is full. It can also be used more often – you can use it in more situations without seeming out-of-place than you can with a rollaboard suitcase. I’ve […]
Good morning Is it time to start the count down of shopping days until Christmas? Well, before then we’ve the excitement of Black Friday and Cyber Monday to tempt us, of course, and this weekend, the more relaxing and retrospective Veteran’s Day weekend. With the thought of buying things in mind, this week we feature […]
Good morning I hope your Halloween was enjoyable. My long dark driveway (and, ahem, German Shepherd) tend to keep the number of trick and treaters down to a very small number each year, but Anna always manages to score an impressive amount of candy as she does her rounds (as well as sweeping up all […]
If your belts are at all like mine, they’ve got five holes in them, an inch apart from each other. In my case, there is a sad hole or two – a memory of earlier slimmer times, and a hole that shows way too many signs of stress because I’ve been slow to admit that […]