If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music … and of aviation. — Tom Stoppard

Posts Tagged ‘plane’

travel diary – day 215

day 211 – after a sleep-in, i went out to a korean restaurant for lunch. i just can’t get enough kimchi jiggae during my stay in korea. after that, christina and i went to see the movie ‘one week’ at the cinema. it’s a really good movie actually. it was a bit weird at the [...]

travel diary – day 175

day 171 – today it rained all day. i’d been spending a lot of money in china, so i decided to stay at the hotel. i chatted online and played chess all day. day 172 – i packed, checked out of the hotel and went with hokuto to catch our flight to lhasa. customs and [...]

travel diary day 35

day 30 (continued) – instead of spending the evening doing totally nothing, i decided to be a good guest and cooked dinner for my generous host. i went digging around the kitchen and found enough ingredients to make a very reasonable spaghetti. there was no cummin, kidney beans or chilli powder, but i could make [...]

are aussies traveling too much??

some people are sanctimonious prats, desperate for column inches … an article by adele horin (which somehow got published by the sydney morning herald) suggests that aussies travel too much and that our carbon footprint is too big. she says that aussies are hypocrits because we claim to be environmentally concerned yet spend lots of [...]

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