Tag Archives: Flying
Let the adventures begin
I’m sitting in the Abu Dhabi International Airport writing a quick post at the start of my three-week trip to Europe. By the time this post goes live I should … Continue reading
Sweat!
It’s 1.30am local time and I’m sitting here at Abu Dhabi Airport on my way to Geneva. I hear snoring coming from somewhere out past my right shoulder. It was … Continue reading
9pm and all is well
Last week I went flying with a friend who monitors ATM (cash) machines from the air. It was a dark, windy, overcast night; few of the photos during the flight … Continue reading
Virtually Wordless Wednesday: A close call
How do they get this close? (From the recent Waterkloof Airshow – the Silver Falcons show their stuff).
Heading home with Velvet Sky (that’s the airline, not the female wrestler)
After my flight down to Cape Town last week I was keen to see whether the airline could redeem itself on my return flight. Before I start, let me make … Continue reading
Views from above
I know I already posted a “Wordless Wednesday” today but I enjoyed these so much that I just couldn’t hold myself back from posting again… My previous post in July, … Continue reading
Let’s fly
To the consternation of parents and orthopaedic surgeons everywhere I became famous at church for flinging kids… From Pretoria to France and all the way to Madagascar I would often … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sky
For this week’s photo challenge I took to the skies around Pretoria in what their pilots lovingly refer to as a “gyro”. My father excitedly recounts the story (over and … Continue reading
The other side
And so here I am back home in a frigid South Africa. I managed to check 30kg of luggage in (where one is normally only allowed 20) and the flight … Continue reading
