VNO-RIX
Travelling recently between Vilnius and Riga airport, I noticed the small regional aircraft was a Fokker 50. I’m actually not sure if I’ve flown in a Fokker before, but it was actually quite cool to see that many of them are still in use. Why is that cool? Well, simply because Fokker was a Dutch […]
Minsk
Between the woods and snow covered fields the airport of Minsk (MSQ) is an odd appearance. A concrete fortress with a USSR touch, perhaps also because the impressive cargo planes parked on the tarmac. After disembarking the Belavia plane and boarding the terminal, it’s a bit unclear where to get the mandatory travel insurance. Giving […]
On train travelling and Kashtan
I love travelling trough Europe by train. Yes, in a few hours you can fly easily to any destination in Europe, but what’s more convenient than just stepping into a train, read a book and see countries passing by and landscapes changing? Some people will say it costs too much time. However, when you travel […]
Off to Italy
A rainy Netherlands in July 2012 made us buy an Interrail train ticket and jump on the train towards Italy, going trough Germany and Switzerland giving us great views of the Alps, especially when we used the famous Bernina Express between Chur (Switzerland) and Tirano (Italy). After a trip to Milan (while waving to George […]
Dopplr dead?
It seems that the travel website Dopplr is slowly pulling the plug. It already looked a bit like a ghost-site, with the latest blog update dated in 2009, but now it’s not able anymore to add trips. It seems that after the acquisition by Nokia basically nothing happened. A true pity, since it’s imo the […]
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