Archive for the ‘ Travel ’ Category
Emirates has today announced they order an additional 32 a380 airplanes. They are already having ten of these super jumbo’s. With the new order their total amount will grow to 90 over the years. Businessweek.com gives detailed information about the A380 order. It will allow Emirates to grow to be an enormous airline. Keep in [ READ MORE ]
Lonely Planet was among one of the first to offer a traveler oriented application on iPad. The application named 1000 ultimate experiences should get everybody excited about the best the world have to offer and of course offers much background information. June 1st, 2nd and 3rd it’s for free in the iTunes store, so quickly [ READ MORE ]
Yes we did it again. Our yearly get together with university friends. It was a great geeky weekend with lots of gaming, beer, and partying. And yes, there were also girls. And yes, Jeen had a couple of beers. The photo’s are online in the photo album. Click here or navigate there using the menu structure [ READ MORE ]
Right now AirAsia is running its popular promotion: Free Seats! I’m planning a trip trough Asia again for the autumn season. This way I figured it would be cool if i’d be able to get a couple of those free tickets. Unfortunately the ticket you’d book now is for travel period January to May 2011. [ READ MORE ]
I love it when a spontanious idea transforms in taking actions ! Just booked a ticket Amsterdam – Geneva for a weekend in June together with my colleague Dmitry. Really looking forward to that weekend break. We found a brilliant ticket for a weekend trip: Departure friday evening, 20:55 hrs. Departure airport Amsterdam Return on monday morning, [ READ MORE ]
Lonely Planet offers the best guidebooks out there without doubt. However what you frequently hear from people is that they love the guides on the road but are not so interested in them as preperation material. This goes for me as well, there is too much detailed info in there which you don’t want to have when [ READ MORE ]
In the previous post I was very enthoussastic about TripWow. And wow, now i’m not so much enthoussiastic anymore. The tool is cool, it gives users the opertunity to create a slideshow of their images fast and clean. However there are serious drawbacks to it ! You have very limited influence on the animations You have [ READ MORE ]
Tripadvisor is a very renown site offering ratings of accomodations and locations around the world. For travelers, by travelers. I actually just registered at TripAdvisor because I really felt I needed to do two things: Create a review for Horas Family home on Sumatra, the place we slept during our stay on Samosir Island, Lake Toba Check [ READ MORE ]
As you might know by know I’m fan of Matt Harding and his where the hell is Matt video footage on YouTube. Of course people will start to imitate Matt over time. I would too if I’d travel enough for it. Unfortunately I do travel a lot, but not enough for such video . However [ READ MORE ]
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in Island in general is BAD news. Airlines sufficate, economies crumble, people miss funerals or child birth of their loved ones… In one word shit. However it’s not only bad things. Bad times usually inspire people to do good also. So Lonely Planet was also feeling this way. They offer a BIG range [ READ MORE ]