Rio Tejo at Santarem

Rio Tejo as seen from the Jardim das portas do Sol, in Santarem, Portugal

What to expect when flying with Blue Air

​ While I am not an uber-frequent flyer, I did fly enough in the past few years to get an idea of how things work. So I decided to write a few short notes on what to expect when flying on some of the airlines I flew on and to some of the airports I have

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Pil-pil shrimps

A quick and easy recipe for a delicious Spanish entree

Creveți pil-pil

O rețetă rapidă și ușoară a unui preparat delicios din bucătăria Andaluziei.

Solitude

A lonely tree in a field on a foggy morning. Near Cristian, Brașov county, Romania

Postcards from Romania (1)

Prahova Valley. Above Sinaia, looking towards Bușteni (in the valley towards the back)

Vienna night panorama

A night panorama of Vienna, Austria, featuring St. Stephen’s Cathedral, taken from the top terrace of the Haus des Meers, a former WW2 flak tower repurposed into a zoo and aquarium.

What to expect when flying with Austrian Airlines

While I am not an uber-frequent flyer, I did fly enough in the past few years to get an idea of how things work. So I decided to write a few short notes on what to expect when flying on some of the airlines I flew on and to some of the airports I have been

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Winter’s last fight

At the beginning of March 2016 I was in Vienna for a week, and on one of the mornings I decided to take a walk through Lainzer Tiergarten, which is in a forest on the hills south of Vienna. Climbing towards the park it was drizzling, then it started raining, and as I went higher and

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Seatguru and other sources unanimously say that the last row of seats in every airplane is the worst, no matter what type of plane is involved. Limited or no recline, galley & lavatory proximity, sometimes noise from the engines or seats protruding in the aisle, they all provide a cocktail of elements that makes this

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