In flight: Taking Speedbird for a hop across the pond
By the time we got to London we had been on the go roughly 34 hours. Sure, a decent amount of that time was spent...
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In flight: The suite life of Emirates First Class
It took a long time before I managed to get myself into a proper first class cabin on a long-haul flight. I still haven’t actually...
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My travel technology kit
Apparently there’s a bit of a trend as the year begins to talk about the technology that we travel with (see also here, here and...
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Checking in: GRT Grand Chennai
On our second stay in Chennai on this trip we wanted to be more in the center of town than the Radisson Blu at the...
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Taking the Emirates A380 OnAir connectivity for a ride
There were many, many reasons I was excited about coming home from our New Years trip to Sri Lanka. One of them was the opportunity...
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In Flight: Flying out of the storm on SriLankan
An image like this near your airport is simply not good. Flying out of a tropical cyclone almost guarantees an adventure. About the best thing...
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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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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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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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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...