Category: Travel tales

Israel

Bon voyage? Leaving Tel Aviv

• anjci
• on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

One of my most dramatic travel experiences was the nearly failed departure from Tel Aviv airport on Easter Monday 2009. I knew very well about the airport’s draconic security measures...

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Travel Musings

This is England, or How I almost missed my flight

• anjci
• on Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Thousands of people make their way from London airports and train stations every Christmas season. With quite a mass of travellers, trouble is just waiting to happen. This year was...

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Greek illusions

Greece: Illusions no more II

• anjci
• on Friday, July 31st, 2009

I didn’t quite finish expressing myself on Greece in my first “Illusions no more” piece: https://anjci.com/greece-illusions-no-more/. Let this come as a (surely long-awaited) continuation. As the summer passes by, I...

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Greek illusions

Greece: Illusions no more

• anjci
• on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I mean, Greece is a great country. The food is generous and tasty. The islands are, erm, blue, white and surrounded by the sea. The sun shines abundantly during the...

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Teach me to travel, or missing my plane to Milano

• anjci
• on Thursday, November 10th, 2005

WHY can’t I travel like all humans? Something always has to happen. Either I have half an hour inbetween my connecting planes, and the first one is 29 minutes late,...

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Departure from Helsinki

• anjci
• on Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

5:30 a.m. I get up chirping away and turn on the TV to once again see Michael Jackson’s fans go hysterical in jubilation. It appears that there is plenty of...

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