What do East Timor and Switzerland have in common? Culturally, Fiscally and Geographically bugger all, but citizens of both countries have the capacity to confound visitors with the dexterity of their lingual gymnastics. Moreover their capacity to use several ‘official languages’ to get their message across. Switzerland has four national languages (German, French, Italian and...
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It’s a little over 12 months ago that I conceived the radical ground breaking idea to create a blog and pen my thoughts for the world to read. Well not so much the world but a small, select group of individuals. Well not even a small group, my Mum read it and thought it was...
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Travel writing is a notoriously unoriginal game in the 21st Century. Any $50 a night whore with high school education can get a cheap plane fare, fuck around in some savage land and then write about how tickled it made them feel. (Actually that might be half-worth reading). But not the crap we get...
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Yesterdays papers had banner headlines announcing the death of actor Patrick Swayze. Swayze had been battling cancer for many months a finally succumbed at the age of 57. While a solid actor who appeared in a number of successful movies such as Ghost and Dirty Dancing Swayze will not go down as one...
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Qantas is currently facing many challenges. The airline industry has seen a massive downturn during the recent economic slump and while many markets are starting to see a slight upturn the aviation industry is going to take a long time to recover. Qantas has also see the entry of two new competitors,...
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Australians are boorish, impatient, aggressive drunks who are struggling to adapt to their insignificance in an ever-rapidly increasing and globalising population. That’s what one would conclude after reading an article on the rising incidents of passenger rage inflight and at airports (“Fight Club” by Geoffrey Thomas, Air Transport World August 2009). Thomas states that...
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The recent terrorist attacks in Jakarta and Papua have highlighted two key facts. The first indisputable fact is no matter how much money governments pour into a war on terror there will continue to be individuals and groups that are able to avoid detection and achieve their objectives of killing and maiming. The second...
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