Archives for March 2009
365: Take the rubbish upstairs
There is definitely a photo essay – one that I may one day complete – about the rooftops of the Middle East. In Cairo I’ve encountered goats, cats and hens; everywhere there’s a sea of satellite dishes; and here in Kuwait it seems a popular place to dump anything and everything.
Actually I’m surprised they don’t throw this stuff out of the window.
365: Opinions, interpreted
A good deal of my working life is spent listening to a peculiar version of international English, discretely interpreted (or occasionally openly mangled).
365: Odd socks
Like a yo yo I’m tugged back to that peculiar mix of Western, Middle Eastern and bloody annoying: Kuwait.
Travel is particularly disheartening if it involves a shuttle from airport to office to inside-facing hotel room. Is there a world out there? Hello?
365: Sort it out!
This idea of taking a photo a day is all very good, but get more than a few days behind and it all starts getting messy. Very messy.
365: My new obsession
Is with how hotel cleaning staff choose to rearrange anything left out around the sink. Use of the flannel here is pretty standard but nice that the items have been grouped by brand. More of these photos to come, doubtless.
As one can see I popped into duty free and upped my metrosexual rating by a power of four.
365: Selling off the family Silverjet
What’s that? What happened to defunct all-business airline Silverjet’s aircraft? Well look what’s turned up here around the back of Amman Queen Alia airport… a re-registered but not re-painted Silverjet 767. Hmm.
(Sorry for the Wikipedia entry, that’s lazy linking.)
365: In the other office
365: Dusty weather
I’ve yet to encounter a real dust storm but the view from my Amman hotel window was, well, something was brooding.
365: You may use your mobile phone onboard
Is it the future? Probably, but I’ll miss the isolation of flight. This is one of Royal Jordanian’s new A320 aircraft equipped with (I think) AirGo, which means one can send and receive calls whilst in the air. The plane was absolutely new, a couple of days in service I think, and thankfully the ‘turn off phone’ light remained lit for the whole journey to amman. Ha!
Operators have a choice between data, or data and voice. Guess which one Ryanair’s opted for?
365: From a distance
I’m fading to black. This is it. Life on the road continues.
