Good morning Happy birthdays this week to two of our favorite airlines. Hawaiian Airlines turned 90, and Qantas turned 99. The relentless buildup of anticipation prior to Black Friday has been continuing apace this week, …
Good morning It has been a busy week this week, with some of the fruits of my labors appearing in the form of not one or two but three articles appended to this morning’s newsletter. …
Good morning I hope your Halloween was happy. As is usually the case, my long dark driveway proved too difficult for the local children, and so yet again, the major beneficiary of the candy purchased …
Good morning It is nearly time to start counting down to Christmas, and certainly time to think about Thanksgiving. I’m already seeing articles about anticipated Black Friday specials, to say nothing of Cyber Monday too, …
Good morning If you had the Monday off this week, I hope you had a lovely long weekend. It is very different in this country to most others, because there is seldom a national consensus …
Good morning It is great to be back, after what has been quite a while since a Travel Insider newsletter appeared in your Friday in-box. I’ve been busy with the two tours that ran back-to-back …
Good morning I’m writing to you from Scotland this morning, with our lovely Scotland’s Highland Highlights tour getting underway, with people joining today, tomorrow, and Sunday, variously here in Glasgow, or in Fort William or …
Good morning Many thanks to the kind people who responded to the start of this year’s annual fundraising drive. There’s something a bit off with the supporter program’s reporting at present, and I’m sure it …
Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week for the first scheduled international passenger flight – between London and Paris, on 25 August 1919. It took 2 1/2 hours and was a full flight – one …
Good morning It is now barely a week until Labor Day and the traditional end of another summer. The airlines are gleefully banking rich profits due to travel this year being up 4% on last …
Good morning I’ve had a very busy week this week, and thought I’d – excuse me – quickly rush off a short piece as a feature article for this week. But the “quick short piece” …
Good morning I went on a mini-road trip this week, covering over 800 miles in two days, with 650 of those miles featuring my teenage daughter and her friend in the back of the car. …