My travel year in review: 2011
As 2011 comes to a close it is time once again to look back at all the crazy I’ve managed to experience in such a...
Year: 2011
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Lounge hopping at the Chennai airport
With the city besieged by a tropical cyclone and some uncertainty about the drivability of the roads we set off early for the airport. The...
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Dear moron: It was your own fault
Filing a lawsuit against a company for causing you to feel ashamed and distressed is an interesting claim. It seems an especially ridiculous one, however,...
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Checking in: Vivanta by Taj, Malabar Cochin
It generally takes a very special situation for me to consider dropping $300+ per night on a hotel room. I rarely see the value in...
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My wife, the movie star
Or maybe a rock star. Or some other sort of star. At least in India. Seriously, if you’re ever looking for some attention I highly...
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Checking in: Sonnetta Residency, Fort Cochin
I’ve probably bored just about everyone into submission with the tales of woe involving our hotel arrangements while in Kochi (read here and here if...
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It was then I realized my nose was woefully inadequate
It was about 9:15am on Christmas Eve when the gravity of the situation finally hit me. For thirty-odd years I had been pretty confident that...
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The points game doesn’t make sense for most travelers
Yeah, I said it. So did Chris Elliott recently, and perhaps for the only time ever I’m going to mostly defend his point of view...
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Checking in: Radisson Blu GRT Chennai
Our Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt landed at Chennai’s international airport a few minutes prior to midnight. Our flight the following morning to Kochi was at...
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I had thought India was getting too easy
The first few days of this trip seemed too easy. Yes, there were the typical problems that happen, mostly associated with my being an awful...
