by ezs | Mar 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
I was due to travel from Edinburgh to London Heathrow this morning on the 6.30am flight – scheduled to arrive at London Heathrow at 8.00am
I heard from the people in the Novell Scotland office and a few others that heavy snow was forecast; I decided to travel down from Scotland early – “Just in case”.
Smart planning. Edinburgh Airport was closed for several hours this morning; flights started leaving at 9.30am. My scheduled flight arrived at London Heathrow at 11.30am – much later than my connecting flight to San Francisco.
Phew! I may have had a hectic Saturday travelling down to London – but at least I made my flight and I’ll be back home tonight.
Posted at: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
by ezs | Mar 11, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Gonetoutah, travel, Uncategorized
Wow – I went out for dinner tonight in Birmingham, England with my sister.
Birmingham is renowned as one of the curry capitals of England; the original home of the Balti.
This evening I chose to visit a recommendation – Lasan in the Jewelery Quarter.
Put simply – the food was superb. Modern, classy Indian, served with style. Very tasty, extremely high quality ingredients – and they cook parathas to order 🙂
Highly recommended
Written at: on the train between Birmingham, England and London, England.
by ezs | Jan 17, 2006 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
Sounds crazy – flying without incurring the cost of CO2 emissions.
However – I found an interesting website that helps calculate the ‘carbon cost’ of flying and the remedy to neutralise that usage.
The example given – for a medium haul flight – is something I do on a weekly basis. For example a round trip from Salt Lake to New York. To counteract this I need to purchase two trees. Or about five trees per month. That’s over fifty trees per year. Ouch.
You can calculate your own impact here.
by ezs | Dec 16, 2005 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
Today is Friday. I am back in the UK -and on the train again. This time heading north from London to Leeds on GNER.
On the positive side – it’s a nice fast journey up to Leeds – no hassle of flights, getting to and from the airport and all of the checkin hassle. It’s also a lot lot faster than driving (probably four hours each way – which would hurt). There is also free Wifi on the train (woo!) – which is actually useful (sync of mail and get some research complete).
On the negative side – the value is questionable. While less than flying – it still hurts to pay so much for a flexible ticket.
by ezs | Dec 15, 2005 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
It’s Thursday – I’m in Frankfurt.
I am using guest internet access at the Star Alliance offices here in Frankfurt. That’s good fun.
by ezs | Dec 15, 2005 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
Late posting this – but hopefully interesting.
We landed at Heathrow on Sunday morning – and saw a massive black smoke cloud as we were landing. Only after we arrived did we realise that one of Europes largest fires was burning on our flight path.
On Sunday afternoon we all went to the park – the sky was very strange; a wintery sky with a huge black cloud blocking out the northern part of the sky. Very eery.
On the train on Monday I saw the fires more closely. An enormous pillar of smoke covered the sky:
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