Lufthansa German Airlines group and Economy class travel
Thought for the day…”Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
Too many companies are using coronavirus as an excuse now. Often it is being used to cover up their own failures but the excuse of coronavirus is being overused. Joining the bandwagon of companies blaming (conveniently) coronavirus is the Lufthans group (LH) airlines. Now this is why I am getting angry…..according to Lufthansa, they are no longer giving ECONOMY class passengers tea, coffee or food on flights of less than 150 minutes. This is to protect “your health and the health of our employees”
https://www.lufthansa.com/ch/en/current-onboard-services#short-haul
BUT if you are travelling Business class then you will still get food and drink. Now would the managers at Lufthansa like to tell me why Business class passengers are not seen as any risk whereas Economy class passengers are seen as a risk? Or is the real reason that Lufthansa just wants to save money and is conveniently using coronavirus as an excuse to make further cuts to Economy class services? I know which answer my money is on. And also why do Lufthansa no longer service food when other airlines ARE still serving food to economy class passengers?
Companies should stop trying to blame coronavirus for everything. Be honest with customers, and if you are going to cut out meals and drinks for Economy class passenger then BE HONEST and tell us the real reason….to save money. Do not try and blame it on coronavirus. We are not stupid.
And another photo from the archives, Ometepe in Nicaragua at sunset….
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The positive side of coronavirus
Thought for the day…”Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Despite all the doom and gloom at the moment, there are some positive sides to coronavirus. Staff in shops and cafes have become noticeably better recently, and are happy to serve you now. Not only that but they have time to help and, with the lack of customers, are actually trying to help out. Shops and cafes have become more polite, with people waiting patiently in spaced-out queues. Cafes have started putting most items in plastic to prevent contamination, hand disinfectant is now common and for the time being, people are being very good at using disinfectants. And another bonus, the enforced free time is giving some of us some a great opportunity to catch up on things that previously we never had time for. So it is not all negative at the moment !! Stay safe.
The southbound Oslo to Kiel ferry passing the coast of Norway at Drobak.
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Norwegian coast at sunset by drone
Thought for the day…”Coffee is a hug in a mug”
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
As always, it is a few bad people who spoil things for the rest of us. Just been out with the new DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone but nowadays the word drone makes people think of spying and that they are ‘bad’. Increasing restrictions on drone use are appearing all over the place, yet the responsible people who fly drones safely are being penalized for the actions of a few stupid idiots. Very sad that every week further restrictions are being placed on responsible drone users. The results from drones are amazing, and there is no need for more regulations. Go after the idiots who fly near airports, but let normal, sensible people fly drones and take beautiful photos.
Beautiful evening sunlight over the coast of southern Norway, taken a couple of days ago with the Mavic 2 Pro drone. Amazing calm conditions and great light for photos…..
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Not a nuclear explosion, but sunset over the Baltic Sea
Thought for the day…”Well done is better than well said.” (Benjamin Franklin).
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
A wonderful story in the news at the moment from Washington, DC, about ‘Steve’, the security robot who fell down some steps into a water fountain. The high-tech robot was fitted with ultra-sonic sensors, infra-red sensors and HD video, yet still managed to fall down the steps and into the water below. His makers, Knightscope, have been providing updates on his ‘condition’ from ‘hospital’. The security robot is quoted as thanking his human helpers for saving him, and he is also quoted as saying that he did not see the ‘No Swimming’ sign before entering the water. Apparently the water has played havoc with his electronics (natually). His condition was reported as ‘critical’. So despite all the high technology, the ‘intelligent’ robot still managed to end up wet and useless. And this is supposed to be the future !!
Not a nuclear explosion, but sunset over the Baltic Sea near Sweden for the photo today…
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Overcrowded and full, New Zealand
Thought for the day..”There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
New Zealand continues to be overrun with tourists. Whilst the tourist board seems to think that ever increasing numbers of tourists are a wonderful thing, those people who are in New Zealand are now seeing the effects over too many tourists. Accommodation is full in many places, cafes are packed out, roads are busier than they have ever been (=more accidents) and the national parks and nature are suffering (and suffering is the word) from the onslaught. And there is no end in sight. Airlines are putting on more and more flights (particularly from China) and are upping frequencies. Trying to get reservations for accommodation at the moment is a nightmare and the once quiet country is now far from quiet and unspoilt.
The number of tourists has now passed 3.42 million a year, (population of NZ is about 4.7 million), and is growing by over 10%. So the overcrowding at the popular tourists sights is becoming serious. This also means that the nature and wildlife is suffering too. Imagine driving into Milford Sound (which is in a national park) and arriving before 0900 only to find that ALL parking was already full and that officials were telling arriving motorists to turn around and drive out again.
And the worst part…..there is no end in sight. Quiet, peaceful and quaint it might once have been. Not now.
Today’s photo comes from the Old Town in Bergen, Norway. It started out as a quick snapshot in colour, and was converted to B&W. Just lucky that there was somebody in the sunlight in the ideal position. Another reason why it is good to always have the camera ready.
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End of the day…..sunset time
Thought for the day….” Some days you just have to create your own sunshine”.
“If opportunity does not knock then build a door”.
Is it my imagination or are the shops even more crazy this year than in previous years? Just had ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Blue Monday’ and now the shops seem to be in overdrive for Christmas. And yet it seems that each year that there is less actual Christmas spirit and just more and more Christmas panic. Hard to concentrate on Christmas when the shops are starting it earlier and earlier each year. As usual, it will be madness in the shops in the last couple of weeks. Happy to see it over !!
Couple of photos to show just how good the Fuji jpegs are. Slowly going through the masses of photos and I am trying to delete lots, but it is fun to see some of the better photos. With the great colours from the standard Fuji jpegs, then I can save a lot of time in not editing RAW files. Much easier to get a good jpeg that is just as I want it, instead of hours of editing RAW files. Purists will argue that there is more detail in the RAW files, and that you can adjust them more, but for me, the Fuji jpegs are just right. Have a look at two photos below and see what you think of the colours…….
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The airlines go even lower – more economy class cutbacks.
Thought for the day….” Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm”
” Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face”
Airlines again. So often, things that originate in the USA slowly trickle their way to the rest of the world. Already the major airlines in Europe are beginning to charge for check-in baggage, and at least one budget airline (Wizzair) is even charging for carry-on baggage. Meals, which used to be included in airfares, are often becoming buy-on-board. Lufthansa’s new Airbus A320neos will have LESS legroom than Ryanair. Like Ryanair, Lufthansa is now charging for check in baggage, something that is now becoming standard amongst airlines. Now the news is coming from the USA that United Airlines is going even further. They are introducing a new even more economy ticket. As well as not having the usual benefits (things like being able to pre-reserve a seat), passengers travelling on the cheapest tickets will now not be allowed to use the overhead luggage bins, and they will only be allowed to store small bags under their seats. No doubt that this idea will spread from the USA, as airlines will see it as another way to devalue economy class even more. And spare a thought for the cabin crews, who will now have to police who is putting baggage in the overhead luggage bins, surely a nightmare for them. So economy passengers will be squeezed in even more (Lufthansa) then will not be able to pre-reserve seats, then will have to pay for previously free meals, will not earn air miles, and if the United Airlines move spreads, will be forbidden from putting bags in the overhead bins.
Years ago, people mocked Ryanair when it suggested making passengers pay to use the toilets onboard. The way that things are going with the airlines, then those days might not be so far away.
Time for another portrait photo from the collection. Originally a colour photo, the picture works so well in Black & White. Great, neutral expression on the woman’s face, and perfect natural lighting. The quality of the Fuji glass is clear in this photo.
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Autumn in Norway – sunset in Bronnoysund
Thought for the day….”Life is the flower for which love is the honey”
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live”
Bronnoysund (Brønnøysund in Norwegian) is known as the coastal town in the middle of Norway. About 5000 people live here, at around 65 degrees north. As well as a local airport, it is also visited by the daily Hurtigruten coastal boat service, both northbound and southbound. Three photos, taken in lovely evening light on 13th October. Camera was the Fuji X-T10 with the 18-55mm kit lens. Soon this lens will be joined by the new Fuji 100-400mm lens, which has just been ordered. Not an easy decision to buy a lens that costs about 3 times as much as the camera, but quality costs, and the quality of the Fuji lenses is superb, so the ‘buy’ button was pressed. Just have to collect it now……
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Last light of the day….from above
Thought for the day…”I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, and three times to make sure” (Mae West).
“Sex is emotion in motion” (Mae West).
Up in the air……Who is the biggest? The largest airline in the world (in terms of revenue, profit and fleet size) is the American Airlines group. In terms of passengers, Delta is the world’s biggest private airline, with around 129 million passengers a year. Emirates Airlines (UAE) is government owned, but their revenue last year was around USD 24.2 BILLION. It used to be fun at one time, but now the security checks, check-in procedures and overcrowded airports have certainly taken the gloss away. I often wonder who actually votes for the airlines that ‘win’ the awards for the world’s best airlines, but Singapore Airlines get my vote…..as does Singapore Airport (SIN) for the world’s best airport. Norway’s Oslo (OSL) airport certainly deserves an award, not for comfort or for convenience, but for the lack of facilities and unpleasant surroundings. Every time that I fly into or out of OSL I am struck by what a DISGRACE it is for Norway. It does not get any better either.
Work means that I fly more than I would like but occasionally there are some perks….like this sunset last month, seen from an aircraft window in Norway….
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Plastic or Paper? No choice in Rwanda.
Thought for the day…”Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
” Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
It is estimated that at least 1 TRILLION plastic bags are used each year, and that China alone uses more than 3 billion everyday (3 per person). If you consider that it takes around 1000 years for a non-biodegradeable bag to completely disappear, then it is bad news for the environment. The bad news goes further, many of these bags end up in the sea, creating even more problems. One big surprise (but a good one) is that Rwanda banned plastic bags completely, no manufacturing, importing or selling of plastic bags. And the results of this are VERY easy to see when you travel around the country. The Rwandans decided that charging for plastic bags in shops was not an option, as the bags would still be dumped around the countryside, so there would still be a problem. Medical use is one of the few exceptions in Rwanda. The results of the plastic bag ban are very clear to see when you visit the country, is is surprisingly clean. Rwanda also has a monthly community cleaning morning, called “Umuganda”. This is compulsory for every citizen aged between 18 and 65 who is able to work. On the last Saturday of every month, citizens carry out public works to clean and tidy the country. Things like cutting hedges, mowing grass and clearing paths to keep the country clean and tidy. Tourists often are surprised that Rwanda is so clean, and the frequently-heard comment is that Kigali is the cleanest capital that they have been in. Some other cities around the world are following this idea of banning plastic bags, but the Rwandans have shown that it can be done and that it works. Full marks to them !!!
Copenhagen for the photo today, and a cruise ship competes with apartment blocks for the views.
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New Zealand – Discovered
Thought for the day….” Well done is better than well said”.
” When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”
It is sad to see some of the changes in New Zealand now. Up to a few years ago, it was cheap destination and was the sort of place where you could arrive in a place and decide where to stay and for how long. Now that has changed. Huge numbers of tourists (many of them from China) mean that accommodation and buses are booked out, even now which was traditionally a ‘low’ season. There were 402 518 international visitor arrivals in December 2014, a new record, with Chinese tourists being the big growth area. Compare that figure to the total number of people in NZ (just over 4.5 million) and you can see that over a year, that the number of tourists is huge. Over 3/4 of the population of NZ live in the North Island. But the problem now is that most of the tourists want to see the most popular places such as Queenstown, which is leading to overcrowding and booked out buses and accommodation. This season it is hard to travel with advance reservations, and tourist activities are heavily booked, even this late in the season. Prices have gone up a lot too, and NZ is no longer the bargain destination that it was. Prices for accommodation have risen sharply, tourist activity prices have reached European levels, and eating out has also reached European price levels too New Zealand has been discovered ! So if you are going to visit New Zealand, reserve in advance and come with a lot more money !! And the photo today is from New Zealand, Lake Wanaka early morning…
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Sunrise to sunset, two different continents. Not the Quality Resort Spa Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day….” Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there”.
” The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask a question is a fool for life”.
Not so many photos of sunrises on the internet (wonder why? !!!) but here is one taken in the hills of Norway at about 750m altitude. Deep down in the valley below, the villages are covered by the clouds, but higher up, the sun is already warming the hilltops. Another beautiful day ahead….
One of the challenges of photographing sunrises in summer in Norway is that during the summer, the sun rises VERY early in the southern parts (and in the north of Norway, it does not set at all (the midnight sun), so there is no sunrise at all in the far north for a few months). This photo was taken on a very early morning trip to Oslo airport. If you have not already read about the airport, then have a look here-
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Oslo airport is a disgrace for a Scandinavian capital, best avoided !!
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Coming Home, end of the day
Thought for the day….” The secret of getting ahead is getting started” (Mark Twain).
“Nothing is enough for whom enough is too little”.
A photo from the Adriatic Sea and from Croatia, with some local fishermen returning home to one of the islands near Split. Croatia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991, and is now a member of the European Union. Along the coast of Croatia, there are over 1000 islands, with the largest being Krk. It is said that Croatia has the smallest town in the world (Hum), which has a population of only 23 people !! It is also believed the the famous traveller Marco Polo was born on the Croatian island of Korcula, and it is believed that the parachute was also invented in Croatia in the 17th century.
One of the positive effects of the karst (limestone) rocks around Croatia is that the seabed is often sharp and jagged, making fishing with large trawling nets impossible. Fishing with handlines and small nets has meant that fish stocks have been preserved, and have also prevented the large factory ships from fishing in this area, so fish stocks are good. Some interesting birds around the boat in the photo too.
and one from the archives…. sunset in Nicaragua
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Faces 4 + 1, Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…..” To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail”
A photo from the harbourside market in Helsinki for the photo today. Nice comparison between the real face and the plastic models. Even in the depths of winter (when temperatures can easily fall to below minus 20 degrees C) and when the nearby sea is frozen, the harbourside market is still there. Finland is number one in the world for coffee consumption per capita, perhaps helped by the long, cold winters. Around the harbour in winter, people sit for coffee in heated tents, and occasionally fish through the ice using a saw. In the depths of winter, daylight is scarce (around 5 hours, although it remains gloomy all day) but around the middle of June, it is light almost 24 hours a day.
And one from the archive……sunset over the Baltic Sea.
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Soothing sunet – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…” Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life”.
Time to dig another photo out of the archives, and since it is Friday then a nice sunset to finish off the week. Do deep from the archives comes this sunset photo. The colours of a sunset are actually caused by dust, and also the way that light diffracts as the sun appears to move lower. Nine major planets orbit the sun, which is around 149 600 km away from the Earth. All the planets also orbit the Sun in the same direction, which is anti-clockwise. Solar activity is on an 11 year cycle, where every 11 years it reaches it maxium. The sun also reverses its polarity every 11 years, with the Magnetic North becoming the magnetic South.
As the colours change so fast at this time of day, a series of photos were taken, then the one with the best colour was selected. The photo has been cropped from the original.
If the good people at Air France Customer Service are reading this, then I would really appreciate it if they could reply to emails and sort out the 2012 refund problem. Answering emails does not appear to be their strong point.
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Sunset by the Sahara – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day….” Sometimes you have to take a leap at life and builds your wings on the way down”.
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, and touches 11 different countries. In some parts, the highest sand dunes can reach 180m. Today’s photos shows a town in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, seen here in late evening sunlight. Morocco has a population of around 33 million people and became independent from France in 1956. Rabat is the capital, although Casablanca is the largest city. Arabic, French and Berber are the main languages, and the money is called the Dirham. The national drink is mint tea, which is found in every city, whilst couscous is the national dish. Mining (especially phosphates), agriculture and tourism are the main industries. Not many signs of life in the photo though….
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Going home at sunset – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…” A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.”
Did you know that the first digital camera was made by Fuji in 1988 (called the Fuji DS-1P), although engineers at Kodak had earlier made a camera that used a CCD (charge coupled device) ? Digital cameras had evolved as a natural extension of the technology that had been developed for recording television programs, such as the VHS tape system. In 1986 Kodak engineers made the first million-pixel sensor. Even Apple joined the race, producing the ‘Apple Quick Take Camera 100’ in 1994. At the other extreme, Fermilab built a 500 megapixel camera for use in telescopes, and the latest professional digital cameras are coming with 70mp sensors. Progess.
Sometimes you need to take a lot of shots of the same scene in order to get one good one. Today’s photo is just one of those situations, as it needed a lot of shots before the fishermen were in the correct position. Timing was so important for this shot, which comes from Mindelo in Cape Verde Islands. End of another day.
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Canterbury hills in evening light – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day….’ When one door closes, another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully at the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us” Alexander Graham Bell.
I used to fly a lot with Norwegian Airline. In the beginning they were reliable and good, but recently have decided to outsource their cabin crews. Just before Christmas they made their Swedish-based staff redundant but the staff were able to continue to work via an employment agency (albeit with worse working conditions). Redundancy must have been a lovely Christmas present from the company to its staff. Not only that, but the airline is crewing its new long-haul flights with Thai staff, presumably because it is a lot cheaper. The same thing happened onboard ships earlier, the end result being that jobs are lost in many countries when the workers are replaced by cheaper foreign crews. So now Norwegian Airline is at it too. So from now on I will try and avoid flying with Norwegian Airlines. Companies that treat staff like this do not deserve support.
Looking almost like a painting in the soft light of evening, the photo today is from Spotswood in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. This area is a big sheep farming area, although vineyards are also becoming popular as well. Just crossing the lower part of the picture is the main north-south railway line which nowadays only sees one passenger train a day during the summer months, as well as regular freight trains.
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Nicaragua Lake Sunset – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…” Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question”.
” Forever can be only tomorrow” ” Does age come with experience, or experience with age?”
Off to Central America for today’s photo, and to Nicargua. With a population of around 6 million, Spanish-speaking Nicaragua borders both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Interestingly, there are no street names, and addresses are given with references to nearby landmarks. Managua, the capital, has a population of around 1 million. Agriculture is the main industry, although it remains a poor country, with (according to the UN) around 48% of the population below the poverty line. Tourism is now the second major industry. The photo was taken at Ometepe, a volcanic island on Lake Nicaragua.”
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Lake Wanaka sunset – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day….” Generosity is giving more than you can, whereas pride is taking less than you need.”
“Walking forwards or backwards makes no difference as long as you are moving ahead”. ” You always get lucky, sometimes”.
Did you know that Japan’s Okinawa island has more than 450 people aged 100 years or more? It is said to be the healthiest place on Earth.
Last light of the day over Lake Wanaka New Zealand for the photo today. The different colours of sunsets are caused by the amount of dust and particles in the air. The sunlight has to refract through hazy layers, and this splits the white light into the various colours during a sunset. When the times for sunset are calculated, they are based on a sea level horizon, and do not take into account height or mountain ranges. The Earth’s atmosphere also bends light rays, so the actualy time of sunset can be 3 minutes later than the ‘official’ time of sunset. People making sundials will use the ‘Equation of Time’ to correct for the difference between solar time (sun time) and solar mean time (the solar time based on 24 hour days). The difference can be over 15 minutes, which is why sundials need to be corrected. Did you know that on Spitsbergen, not far from the North Pole, that there is a sundial (the world’s most northerly sundial) which shows the time 24 hours a day, due to the continous daylight during the summer months. The pole or stick on a sundial (which casts the shadow) is known as the gnom0n, and has to be at the same angle as the latitude of the sundial.
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Photo of the Day Tuesday 4th June 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day..” Time heals all wounds, but only wisdom keeps them from reopening”
” We may all have come on different boats, but we are all in the same boat now” (Martin Luther King)
I was not surprised to read recently that airlines are topping the list for bad customer service. If the ‘service’ that I have experienced with Air France is anything to go on, then the bad reputation is well deserved. Not only is the onboard service poor, but the ground ‘service’ from Air France is just as bad. The good thing is that I can vote with my wallet, so Air France have not seen any of my money for a good long time. I thought that the French were famous for good food until I flew with the French airline. Also near the top of the bad airline service list would probably be SAS, another airline whose staff seem to forget that it is the customer who is actually paying their wages. Again, SAS lost out a long time ago, the experience before Christmas turned me off them for life. That said, there are some airlines that are FAR better and whose staff do take care of passengers properly. Airlines like Qatar Airways show just how it should be done. I just hope that Air France and SAS go out of business fast, life it too short to experience bad airlines.
Sunset over Lake Wanaka, New Zealand for the photo today, with some magical light. Magical light for a magical place, and as they say there, ‘life the way it should be.’
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Photo of the Day Tuesday 28th May 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…” Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant” ” Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”.
The shortest regular scheduled flight in the world is the 2 minute flight from Westray to Papa Westray. In the news is the story that the 59 year old pilot, Stuart Linklater who has done this flight some 12 000 times, is to retire. The fastest that the flight has ever been done is 53 seconds. Singapore Airlines currently holds the record for the world’s longest flight, the 18.5 hour flight from Singapore to Newark, although this service will end this year. The distance covered on this flight is over 15 296 km.
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Photo of the Day Thursday 9th May 2013 – Not the Quality Spa Resort Hotel, Norefjell.
Thought for the day…” Success comes in cans, not in can’ts” “The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open”
Did you know that 9 major planets orbit the sun? Or that 109 planet Earths would fit onto around the surface of the sun, and that every 11 years that the sun reverses its polarity, so that the north pole becomes the south pole? Or that it is around 150 million km away from the earth. In the 16th Century Copernicus said that it was the Earth that travelled around the Sun, although a Greek philospher Aristarchus had claimed this much earlier. So for the photo today, a picture of a sunset over the Baltic Sea……
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