Category April A-Z Challenge
PADDLE STEAMER – MY SIXTEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
During my days working with the cruise & ferry sector, I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the 1999 Fast Ferry Conference in New Orleans. I managed therefore to get an all expenses paid trip to the capital of Louisiana for a 45-minute speaking engagement. I actually combined it with client visits to […]
ORIANA CRUISE SHIP – MY FIFTEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
To an independently minded traveller like me, the thought of a cruise makes me feel quite queasy. Five thousand fellow passengers travelling at close quarters, set meal times and herded around in tour parties once arriving somewhere good – yuk, no thanks! This is pretty ironic as for eight years I worked with the cruise […]
NUCLEAR SUBMARINE – MY FOURTEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I have never been on a nuclear sub (the foxtrot was non-nuclear), but during one travel experience I certainly imagined that I had. The occasion was a visit to Balaclava submarine base in the Crimea, then very much part of Ukraine. We toured the once secret venue that used to house the Soviet nuclear submarine […]
MOTOR BIKE/CAR – MY THIRTEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I had never ridden a motorbike in my life, but as a cyclist I figured that it could not be that difficult. This was proven to be otherwise when my old school mate Lang & I visited the Greek Island of Aegina in ’94. We decided to hire motorbikes to explore the island and first […]
LIGHT AIRCRAFT – MY TWELTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
In 1998 my regular travel buddy Hamish and I toured Peru. During our first week in the most beguiling country we decided to take in the mythical Nazca Lines. The Lines are giant sketches carved into the desert floor depicting the likes of a monkey, a whale, lizard, a spider and many more. Each carving was […]
KAYAK – MY ELVENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
In 1996 I travelled to Hong Kong with my brother Ed to stay with my other brother’s brother-in-law and his wife on the edge of a lake in the New Territories. One night us three blokes went on a real bender in Central HK and eventually returned at seven in the morning by taxi, still rolling […]
JEEP – MY TENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
This was another special holiday as Mrs Wilbur and I visited South Africa in 2003. The main feature of our trip was a safari in Kruger National Park. We stayed at a rustic lodge called Akeru and no sooner had we arrived than we were off in search of the Big Five. We met Ryan […]
INTER-RAIL – MY NINTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
Island hopping was high on the list for the blogging treatment having visited Spetses, Hydra, Aegina, Poros, Santorini, Rhodes, Symi and more, but how could I possibly not plump for inter-rail? My 1987 experience gained from my three weeks of training around Europe has been hugely influential in my life, instilling an adventure gene that […]
HELICOPTER – MY EIGHTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
I have been a passenger on a helicopter four times, for a grand total of twenty-eight minutes! In the days that I was an international sales manager, I managed some clients and suppliers based in Monaco. Our travel policy was very much budget flights in those days, but amazingly we managed to persuade our travel […]
GOLF BUGGY – MY SEVENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
Although I have flown a glider (well I took the controls for five whole minutes!), perhaps strangely I have chosen a golf buggy for my G themed transportation. On the basis that I am absolutely hopeless at golf (sorry dad, I did try!), this has nothing at all to do with my presence on a […]
