(Given the ever-changing security situation here, this post will be updated as circumstances develop so check back often) Travel Warnings A helpful warning as I set off for Kabul today: Do not travel to Afghanistan due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest,...
Another monsoon begins. And this time it begins in the desert. Taking the 10:55pm Etihad Airways Flight #100 from JFK to AUH, I first experienced nearly an hour’s delay on JFK’s tarmac before taking off. While up in the air, I was able to knock out...
After 2 nights and 2 days in the Isle Of Man, our gang headed out early for our morning flights out. A twice-a-week ferry does run between Isle Of Man and Belfast, but it runs at midnight and 2:30am in the morning and costs almost as much as a flight. Given we...
On my way to Isle Of Man this evening, I enjoyed an unexpected 8 hour layover in lovely Manchester. Taking the 10pm Thomas Cook Airlines flight from JFK Airport in NYC, I arrived 7 hours later at 9:55am local time at Manchester Airport. My morning started with...
Like many of my trips before, a day in Barbados wasn’t really planned to happen. But things that happen are meant to happen right? I dare say this one was from the old habit of having 2 consecutive days off and wondering: Where’s the next place I can go...
Thanks to Ann Wen again for help with the blog title! A lot of this has been repeated the last time I was in Lahore, but the highlight that I came back for would be the Wagah Border between India and Pakistan. Lahore After the Mehndi/Rasm-e-Heena ended at 3am,...
The last time I was in Prague 19 years ago, I was 11 years old. And I haven’t been back since. So does it count if I really don’t remember anything but this photo? NO IT DOESN’T. Last month, when 7-time monsooner (Luxembourg, Australia,...
