Airlines :

Pack an In-Flight Bento

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With airlines cutting back on on service, comfort, and meals, a logical parting gift for your house-guests could be an in-flight bento! Saba Man and I had visiting relatives from Hawaii that left this morning for their flight home.  [...]

Flying South African Airways

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You guess it right, I am in the air again, but it looks like it is the last time for a little while, at least the next four month as I will be based on the same ship for that time. As the title for this blog already says, I took South African[...]

A Case of Cocktail Plagiarism

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Unbelievable... United Airlines just staked claim on a mixer that has already been well established. They?re calling it the ?Sunrise Sunset?, but I believe it?s more commonly known by bartenders and drinkers alike as the ? Madras ?. In fact,[...]

Hitting turbulence at ShopRite

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Image via Wikipedia Continental Airlines and ShopRite make rewards much more difficult. This week, I got an e-mail from Continental Airlines about earning frequent-flier miles at ShopRite supermarkets, which many consider[...]

Good Food in an Unlikely Place

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Among the places where one's expectation of a good meal is minimal, certainly the most infamous is at 35,000 feet on board a plane - any plane. Complaints and jokes are airline food are legion, in Brazil as elsewhere in the world. Stale sandwiches,[...]

Beef or chicken? Chicken or fish?

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I have never liked the food in Malaysia Airlines (the food in Thai Airways is better) , but I've gotten pretty decent service whenever I fly with them. My parents choose MAS over Thai Airways when we went to Bangkok recently. In Thai[...]

Flying Air France, the holiday begins

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OK, it is a while ago, but I still need to tell you how my vacation started. I was supposed to fly in the evening with Delta from Washington to Amsterdam and then with KLM to Cape Town.Unfortunately the first flight was already delayed by[...]

British Airways, back to work in Alaska

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I am on the way back to work, yes it was a long and fantastic holiday, done a lot, been in beautiful places, but now it is time to work again, earn some money......and see some more of the World. I just had a long flight from Cape Town to[...]

Airline Treat - Mousse de Maracujá Caramels

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Airline travel has become increasingly standardized around the world in the past decades, and the formerly-glamorous world of air travel has almost totally disappeared in most places, including Brazil where airline travel has grown tremendously[...]

Popping over to Miami for an interview and a Stone Crab recipe

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I know it is a while ago, but I went quick from Newcastle, north of Sydney over to Miami for an interview with a rather big cruise line. It was a lot of flying for 5 days, actually most of the time. Everything was good, but there is nothing worse[...]