Visiting Papa Westray: Small, but not at all boring
When I mentioned my intent to visit Westray and Papa Westray Islands in Scotland’s Orkeny Islands, a friend suggested that it would necessarily be a...
Trip Reports
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Esha Ness: On the edge of nowhere
The Shetland Islands are far removed from the rest of Scotland, their political home. Indeed, standing in the main town of Lerwick one is closer...
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Closing out my TrueBlue account
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with JetBlue. I love their on-board product and I consider their JFK terminal to be perhaps the...
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Flying home with Virgin Atlantic
The last of the ten flights on our vacation in Scotland was the late night Virgin Atlantic service from London’s Heathrow to Newark. This wasn’t...
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Ten flights in eleven days…Not a bad trip at all
So I’m somewhere vaguely south of Greenland right now. I’m sitting at the Upper Class bar of a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-300 on the late...
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The world’s shortest commercial flight and me
For an aerophile one of the highlights of a trip to the Orkney Isles in Scotland is an opportunity to experience the world’s shortest commercial...
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Flying with the birds of Noss
If you’ve made it all the way up to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands at the northern end of Scotland odds are you’re there to...
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Light your torches; time to burn a boat!
The idea of talking with a local to get to know the feel for the town one is visiting is not a new one. When...
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Touring London without the Tube
“Mind the Gap” is perhaps one of the more iconic phrases in the history of mass transit. Say that line and many folks’ thoughts will...
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Poked and prodded, all in the name of travel
I travel a decent amount, but apparently not particularly broadly. I thought my list of 40+ countries visited so far was pretty decent but...