9 / 11
On 11 September 2001, I was woken up by an earthquake. At around 7:10 am local time, the clothes […]
Space-Junk / Junk-Space
Space-Junk Have you seen Wall-E? The 2008 Pixar movie about the little waste allocation and load lifter earth class robot […]
Berlin calling!
It’s a miracle! It opened! Berlin Brandenburg Airport 2.0 In July 2013, when I was a at the beginning of […]
The Aerotropolis
The American economist and academic John Kasarda coined the term Aerotropolis around the Millennium, to specifically depict the arising economic structures […]
Come Stroll with Me!
The Art of Strolling See the pyramids along the Nile, watch the sunrise on a tropic isle… Jo Stafford’s You […]
Aura
On a Cairo layover, many moons ago, I went to see the pyramids along the Nile. I was utterly disenchanted. […]
The Circle
Today I was at the grand opening of The Circle. The Circle at Zurich Airport follows a year after The […]
Of Spaces and Places
A Sense of Place The featured image shows Cannery Row in Monterey, California, in October 2020. This is one of […]
Theme Building LAX
The aura of Los Angeles is strongly tied to its movie industry. LAX International Airport received its theme building in 1961 […]
Goddess Airlines
First Class on my airline is cushy, comfortable, luxurious and won the 2020 World Travel Award as Europe’s Leading First […]
Back in the Saddle again – JFK and ORD
JFK After this pandemic-induced kerosene rehab, I finally got to fly again. First to Tokyo, then a few weeks later […]