Although this blog was started with the intention of covering a trip through various parts of Europe, and was ironically subtitled EUogising Europe, it may well be farewelling Europe in a travel sense. Anyone with any sense and compassion would have been moved deeply by Greta Thunberg's speech at the climate gathering in New York …
Month: Oct 2019
Back to reality…
I should have said 'back to Melbourne airport' I used to think it was a good little airport, sensibly laid out with the two domestic terminals on each side of, and withing walking distance of, the international terminal. I might be a bit biased because early in my working life I helped to build Tullamarine, …
Dropping into Dubai …
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the fifth-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, and the sixth-busiest cargo airport in world. In 2017, DXB handled 88 million passengers, 2.65 million tonnes of cargo …
Overnight in Roissy-en-France …
You sometimes find the nicest places by accident. Whilst this end of Roissy is full of hotels, just up the hill there is a lovely village with quite a bit of history. It might be a more popular place to visit if it wasn't jammed up against the main Paris airport, Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle. After …
A visit to Arles …
I’ll be the first to admit to not being a religious person, although I can see some good reasons for it, and some dreadful excuses too. In Arles there are good reasons. I went to Arles with van Gogh in mind, it’s another place in Provence that inspired his paintings and the city is justifiably …
EUlogising Europe 2019 