The travel industry has had a long love affair with the iPhone and its gadgetry goodness, and Lucas and I have found dozens of incredibly helpful ways to use it when we travel. There have been myriad travel-focused iPhone apps, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the ways in which the iPad will revolutionize our travel [...]
At the beginning of the month, I spent a few weeks in Houston for work, and when I got back to Oslo, I found that I had a very difficult time sleeping. At first I assumed it was just jet lag (especially since I didn’t sleep so well on the flight back). I don’t typically [...]
We’ve been working on final preparations for our upcoming trip to South Africa and Mozambique, and one of the issues we’re facing is a sorely limiting luggage restriction on our KLM flight to Johannesburg. Each of us gets a single 20kg bag for the two-week trip. And while normally this wouldn’t be a problem (especially [...]
EDIT: RyanAir has changed their policy since this was written and now allows passengers with all passports to check in online. However, if you hold a non-European passport, make sure you take your printed boarding pass to the check-in counter at the airport for the mandatory passport check, or you may be denied boarding. The [...]
I subscribe to a bunch of airline mailing lists so that I can keep an eye on their sales and promotions, and last week I got an email announcing RyanAir’s fall sale. Anyone who’s ever dealt with RyanAir (or most discount airlines for that matter) knows to take a discount air fare with a grain [...]
At one time I was a little disappointed that I wouldn’t be in Beijing for the Olympics. It sounded like a grand adventure to have a front-seat view of one of the most hyped Olympic celebrations in years. These days though, based on what I hear from those still around, I’m actually kind of glad [...]
On Thursday, we left for a long weekend to fly home for my 10-year high school reunion. I’m amazed that we managed to squeeze so much into the three days we were in the US! It was fun to have a chance to catch up with so many people in such a short time! So what [...]
I was shopping for tickets to fly back to the US this summer, and I visited the website for Iceland Air to check their prices. (Believe it or not, an often-economical way to fly between Scandinavia and the US is via Reykjavik.) On the homepage of the site, I was distracted by the following advertisement: [...]
I’m in Redmond this week for a class at Microsoft. I think shuttling Microsoft visitors and employees has become nearly a full-time operation at the Seattle airport, judging by the quantity of Microsoft logo apparel I saw on my flight from Amsterdam. Also, the typical dialog with everyone from customs and immigration to the taxi [...]
I was in London last week for a conference with work, and on the trip back, I made Torbjørn give me the window seat. We were flying out of London City Airport, which was rather interesting because you fly very low over London (perhaps to stay out of the higher airspace used by Heathrow and Gatwick?) [...]