When people ask, "What is it like to be a pilot?", I usually respond, "It has it's ups and downs..." and wait for a chuckle. The best I usually get it a sympathetic "heh". But all jokes aside, I like it. We often get a lot of down time and opportunities to explore and relax. [...]
On a recent trip, I had one free day in each of Dublin, London and Paris. We made a quick stop in Nice, France as well. It wasn't really enough time to do a lot of touring, but enough to walk around, explore, eat a few good meals and take a few photographs. The historic [...]
We touched down in the mid-afternoon, tired from the over-night Atlantic crossing. After taking care of the aircraft (which took way longer than it should have) and dealing with a lot of French shoulder shrugging, we got into a car and endured a long drive through Parisian rush-hour traffic to the hotel. We had something [...]
We took off from Toronto around midnight to head to Switzerland for the Geneva Motor Show. After a long, but uneventful flight we battled some mountain turbulence and landed just past 13:00 local time. We had to stay in France, due to due the lack of (affordable, sub 1500 Franc/$2000) hotels in the area. After [...]
7 days in Florence and Tuscany [...]
24 hours in Belfast
4 days in Kings Landing Dubrovnik and Ston
48 hours in Stuttgart and Baden-Baden
A few days in the South of France
6 days in the Spanish Riviera [...]
