Not doing it, not for fun anyway
Thought for the day..”You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.”
“Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.”
Just had an email from an online travel agency trying to encourage me to book some cheap HOLIDAY flights. The prices were very good and the destinations interesting….Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Entebbe (Uganda), Nairobi (Kenya) etc. Stress the word ‘holiday’ for these flights. But when you read the details, the flights arrive at around 0200 or 0300, returning at around 0300 or 0400. Now on holiday, I like to enjoy normal sleep, so these cheap flights would ruin at least 2 nights sleep. Arriving at 0200 in a foreign country (especially a place like Nairobi or Johannesburg) is not only no fun, but also dangerous too. And the thought of a departure around 0300 or 0400 means another ruined night. All of this for a HOLIDAY, which is supposed to be a time to relax and enjoy. So this time, I will pass over these cheap offers….life is too short to have this sort of cruelty on holiday. And the good thing….holidays are optional, so I can choose better flight timings. Many birds do not fly at night, and for good reasons. I like my sleep too ! And I like to enjoy my holidays too. Good luck to those who choose these cheap offers…..arriving into somewhere like Nairobi (sometimes called ‘Nai-Robbery) at 0200 then they are going to need it.
A peaceful evening at this bay on Praslin island, Seychelles for the photo today….
and another photo from the archives…a railman looks on as a railtour backs into Penzance station, in the far west of England
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Houston – we have a problem
Thought for the day…”Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” (Rose Kennedy).
You just have to feel sorry for the NASA astronaut who discovered recently whilst on a space walk that he had forgotten to put a memory card in his GoPro camera. We have all done that, or have forgotten to recharge the camera batteries, but to be out in space on space walk and discover that you have no memory card in the camera must feel very bad, very bad. And to make it even worse, the omission was even broadcast, the link for the video from NASA is here –
Back down on Earth, here is a photo from a religious even held in the Swiss town of Brig recently –
The Interlaken (Switzerland) to Lucern express train of the Zentralebahn arrives in Meiringen.
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Aviation variety…..aid flights in PNG and military flights in Switzerland
Thought for the day….”Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
Two aviation photos today, the first from the highlands of Papua New Guinea, where the missionary aviation companies fly into the most incredible (and near impossible) airstrips on the hillsides and ridges. One photo from a typical landing…with the aircraft on one of the flatter parts of the runway. If you check on Youtube, you will see some great videos of the flying in this part of the World, it is extreme to say the least ! Camera for this photo was the Fuji X-T10. The second photo today is from Switzerland, and from the town of Meiringen, where the Swiss Air Force has an important air base. Seen here is an F-18 Hornet aircraft and in the rear of the picture the nose of a Northrop Tiger fighter jet. Camera for this photo was the Fuji X-T20 coupled with the 100-400mm lens.
and another photo…a F-18 Hornet of the Swiss Army, seen here in the Meiringen Air Base.
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