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Archive for March, 2008

16 Mar

Where Air Canada fails, someone else will succeed?!

I wish this was a tale of some young airline valiantly taking on Air Canada and winning, but its not. Its another tale of how Air Canada fails to deliver on service where others can… I think I am clearly developing issues about (former) government owned airlines (Air Canada, British Airways and Qantas leap immediately [...]

15 Mar

The Tibet uprising – a (former) insiders view

What is going on??? The uneasy alliance between China and Tibet seems to be unravelling right now and anyway it goes, it won’t be good. I lived and worked in Tibet for 6 months which provided a fascinating insight to the turbulence which was always rumbling beneath the surface. I never truly wrote down my [...]

14 Mar

Vindicated! We smell like meat!

When roaming in the Australian outback, sun blazing endlessly down on you, the only constant friend you have is your own personal cloud of bush flies. They swarm all over you, walking over your skin, crawling up your nose, getting between your eyes and sunglasses (if you wear them), every waking minute that sun blazes [...]

13 Mar

Snow plough shenanigans

I don’t usually write 2 blog entries a day, but if I didn’t write about the snow ploughs today, it wouldn’t be relevant tomorrow with the rain melting the snow that trapped me this morning… I don’t know what snow plough’s are like in other parts of the world, but here in St John’s it [...]

13 Mar

In the slip… er, grip of an Atlantic storm

Ohhhh! So this is why so many people stay at home when a snow storm sweeps through Newfoundland….
Although yesterday and last night were beautiful and crystal clear, a storm was forecast to come barreling through, as impossible as it seemed. However when I woke up this morning it was definitely snowing and I couldn’t see [...]

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