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Boeing\'s 787 Dreamliner: Great take-off, but what about those wings?
I've not had a chance till now to collect my thoughts on the maiden flight for Boeing's new generation "plastic" airliner, the B787.Tuesday's first flight (click 'webcast' to see the vid) in some truly dreary weather (!), was hailed as a tr...
BAA wants more kissing at Heathrow
...to that end, they have installed the world's largest sprig of mistletoe in Terminal 5 (or at least, the world's largest model of a sprig of mistletoe)The ten foot by eight foot structure, which took designers and engineers three weeks to construct...
Honolulu! Really?
ebookers.com have just posted their Top Ten Best Sellers (Flight + Hotel) for 2010.There's a noticeable - and perhaps suprising, given the recession - swing from short haul destinations to long-haul. Short-haul accounted for 7/10 top destinations in ...
Editorial independence - sightings are rare in travel journalism
There's an interesting conversation over on Jeremy Head's blog at the moment about travel providers turning to travel bloggers for editorial coverage. Jeremy invited a guest, Tom Power from Pura Adventura, to post his thoughts on the subject and it ...
My Edward Woodward moment
Lots of RIP Edward Woodward tweets today, so here is my anecdote.My career started in the theatre. In the late eighties when I'd moved into radio, I used to use my Equity membership to do 'walk-on' work on TV and movie shoots in the west country on a...
Social media tips at Travel Blog Camp
It was an interesting session at last night's TravelBlogCamp. I picked up a few nuggets and came away feeling rather pleased that I've stuck with 'pre-moderation' on blog comments - even though I generally get very few comments on this blog and like ...
