Food and Culture
Food! That’s what it is all about. Food brings the World together. There is no better incentive to travel than food – all the fancy monuments and museums come a distant second. When I am flying long haul, the one … Continued
Culture and Society
When you travel, you get to experience a new society first hand. This helps you to make your own inferences about the place and people, rather than depending on the media to help you make that judgement. It is fun … Continued
Culture and Travel
I, personally, am addicted to travel. I am one of those people who enjoys flying, airports, and being slightly out of my comfort zone. On numerous occasions, I have chosen a flight with a stopover rather than a direct flight … Continued
Culture and Technology
People will wonder, what is an engineer doing dabbling in cultures. He should focus on technology and leave the culture talk to sociologists and philosophers. Personnally, everytime I have mentioned by desire to work in improving cross-cultural exchange, communications, etc … Continued
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An Epic Mileage Run – Preparing for the trip
This report is part of the main article: An Epic Mileage Run – Flying to both Sydney and Singapore, twice in 14 days It is almost 4-5 months ago that I had booked the Epic mileage run, where I … Continued
British Airways (BA) in business class from London Heathrow (LHR) to New Delhi (DEL)
Flight report: British Airways in business class Flight number: BA 257Equipment: 777Origin: LHR (19:35)Destination: DEL (08:15)Flown: April 2014Cabin occupancy: 100% I was flying from Amsterdam to Delhi, via LHR with British Airways. I checked BA.com and saw that I could … Continued
Yearly review – 2013
Yearly review Highlights The highlight for this year, includes a trip to South America – Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago. It was a great trip. I could combine it with a visit to my brother in the USA. Other … Continued
An Epic Mileage Run – Flying to both Sydney and Singapore, twice in 14 days
I just have booked 2 trips! These are no simple trips… Flyertalk.com just had a new post where Iberia fare rules allow you to potentially fly from Paris to Madrid, or vice versa, through most of the cities in the … Continued
Flight review: American Airlines (AA) Santiago de Chile to Dallas Fortworth in Business class
Flight review: American Airlines in Business class Flight number: AA 940 Equipment: 767 Origin: SCL (9:50pm) Destination: DFW (6:05am) Flown: November 2014 Cabin occupancy: 100% Lounge at SCL: I went to the LAN lounge in SCL. It is a fantastic lounge. As … Continued