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Previous | Contents | Next The bill for our first night having vastly exceeded our budget, Heather opened our $15/Day book for the first time — I think it was Frommer — and discovered the Hotel Seton on 40th Street, west of Lexington. Midtown, right where we wanted to go. We checked out ... Read more
Contents Mostly that was because of the people we met — the locals, of course, but also the Brits, Aussies, Chinese, Americans, Japanese and others we met or worked with. Our own team, local and expat, and the aid workers, missionaries, traders, bank officials, diplomats, fishermen, yachties, pilots and so ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next § 10 August 1980: The Air Nauru flight is turbulent, flying through cloud most of the time. The hostess is generous, giving us a cooked breakfast when we ask for extra sandwiches. Nauru is more grey drizzle. The runway is as long as the island is wide and ... Read more
Sunda Kelapa 1992, Peter Connolly photos § This wasn’t our first visit to Indonesia. We’d spent a couple of days in Bangkok on a round the world adventure in 1980, and a few weeks on Bali a bit after that. I’d also had a week or two’s work trip on ... Read more
Contents They also liked the fact that — even though we came from the other side of the world — we were going to do business “as if we were local”. Photographers could pick up the phone and call us any time, we’d deliver door to door — freight ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next This was May 2000. Mobile networks, roaming arrangements and phone charges have improved a bit since then! The iPhone was still 6-1/2 years or so away. ~ Ian So here we are, leaving LA on Day One of our road trip, doing what I’ve always wanted to ... Read more
I’ve posted a few articles from late 2001 following Queensberry’s first Northern Hemisphere trade shows and seminars. They were exciting, and so was the related travel — from the edge of the world to the centre. Interesting to recall that I thought Kiwis were amongst the least insular of people.
Previous | Contents | October 2001 It used to be the Austro-Hungarians we had to thank for keeping the Ottomans out of Europe but for now it’s the EU, while they consider Turkey’s application to join. For such a big shift — from Christian society to Muslim, from Europe to Asia — the ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next October 2001. We only had 2-3 days to spend with Heather’s relatives in the UK on this trip. I was a bit worried about meeting Uncle Bert, the BOAC pilot, again. He definitely hadn’t drunk me under his sister-in-law’s table when he came to New Zealand, but apparently I ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next It’s not often that your flight plans align with a world-shaking geopolitical event, but we managed it in September 2001. Our plan — after joining the Queensberry contingent at the WPPI show in Las Vegas — was to host a round of seminars in Canada, England and Ireland, and ... Read more