2011/11/29 20:27
There's only about 60 km between Scotland's two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh (counting from city boundary to city boundary along the motorway), yet they have separate airports and it takes 50 minutes to take a train from city centre to city centre.Looking further afar, Inverness is only about 180 km north of Glasgow as the crow flies, or about 270 km by...
2011/08/18 22:36
During our recent holiday in my parents' house in Tuscany, we spent a fair amount of time practicing our flying skills on my mother's broomstick.Anna wasn't that great at flying on her own, so I sometimes let her ride on my back.Léon, on the other hand, was quite capable of flying on his own, although Marcel normally would fly close...
2012/02/14 21:54
A few years ago, the low-cost airlines started charging for checking in suitcases in the hope that people would start travelling with hand luggage only.
They seem to have been too successful: When I travelled to Paris yesterday with EasyJet, they asked for volunteers to have their hand luggage checked in for free, and the terms & conditions threatened that they had the right to check in your hand luggage if the plane is too full.
However, given you’re only allowed one piece of hand luggage, it’s likely to contain valuables, such as passports, tickets and laptops, and I wouldn’t be a happy bunny at all if they chucked my computer into the hold.
Surely the whole system needs to be redesigned. As I’ve suggested before, one solution could be to abolish checked-in luggage completely, let passengers carry all their luggage out to the plane, and then let them put the big items into the hold themselves, just as people do when they’re travelling by coach.
Alternatively, redesign the planes, abolishing the hold and increasing the luggage space available in the cabin.
Surely even EasyJet and Ryanair can come up with something better than the status quo!
2011/11/19 10:48
Europe is a real mess when it comes to railway networks. The gauges aren't the same, the ways they've been electrified vary (see the map on the right), and the signal systems aren't the same.To quote from Wikipedia:While most railways use the standard gauge of 1435 mm, some countries, especially Spain and the former member states of the Soviet Union have widespread broad gauge tracks (1,520 mm). Likewise, electrification of lines varies between countries. 15 kV AC has been used...
2011/10/15 22:57
Da jeg var i København først på ugen, lagde jeg på stationerne mærke til nogle blå cirkler på stolper. Det viste sig at være til brug for Rejsekortet, et elektronisk billetsystem, der ligner Londons Oyster-kort.Umiddelbart lød det da som en helt god idé, men da jeg så læste efter, hvad planen er, så jeg til min bestyrtelse, at det "med...
2011/08/16 23:18
When I was learning to drive a few years ago, I bemoaned the complexity of manual transmission and suggested a better way: "As far as I can see, all of this could be done with the vertical part of a...
2011/07/08 23:12
We had to take Phyllis's mum for a hospital appointment today, and instead of waiting at the hospital, we went to the brand-new transport museum, which is now called the Riverside Museum.It's a great improvement on the old Transport Museum,...
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