After recent financial struggles the British touroperating company Thomas Cook was forced to declare bankruptcy on the 23th september of 2019. It was founded in 1841 and started by organising trips to the seaside for British industrial workers, this was followed in 1855 by the first organised tours to Europe.
Tag: Aviation
REVIEW | 4 engines for long haul, flying on Lufthansa’s A340-300 from Brussels via Frankfurt to Montreal in Economy
Last year when our parents turned 60, my sister and I were thinking about what we should give them as a present. As my mother dropped several times how she would love it to visit Canada one day to visit our cousin living there, we decided to gift them the plane tickets to Canada and…
REVIEW | BRA from Malmö to Stockholm Bromma
In the month of April I made a week-long trip with Michel, discovering German aviation history in Friedrichshafen, Danish Railways History in Odense and navigating the sea to discover some Estonian history in Tallinn. As we needed to arrive on time in Stockholm for our ferry sailing towards Tallinn we opted to fly from Malmö…
VIDEO | Flight and train review YouTube channels we follow II
We enjoy watching travel videos and reviews on YouTube.
VIDEO | Flight and train review YouTube channels we follow
Some can’t wait for the next episode of ‘Game of Thrones‘, we enjoy travel videos on YouTube. Especially flight reviews and videos about train rides.
REVIEW | Sun Air of Scandinavia from Friedrichshafen via Dusseldorf to Billund
In the month of April I made a week-long trip with Michel, discovering German aviation history in Friedrichshafen, Danish Railways History in Odense and navigating the sea to discover some Estonian history in Tallinn. After learning about German aviation history and the Dornier factory in Friedrichshafen it was time to fly on a Dornier plane…
REVIEW | Aegean Istanbul to Brussels
After our short night at the Hilton Garden Inn Istanbul Ataturk Airport we took the complimentary hotel shuttle back to the airport. As is usual in Turkish airports we had to pass through a security check before we could enter the airport terminal.
REVIEW | Olympic Air: Athens to Istanbul
After arrival in Athens on our flight from Brussels via Strasbourg, we got our onwards boarding passes at the connections desk.
REVIEW | Aegean Brussels – Strasbourg – Athens
In the final days of 2018 my friend Michel asked me whether I wouldn’t want to join him on a mileage run in January, he needed to fly four flights on Aegean Airlines to keep his Star Alliance Gold Status. As I had the time and never flew them before I decided to tag along.
Let’s visit Airbus and Aeroscopia
The main reason we wanted to visit Toulouse was to do a factory tour of the Airbus plant and the adjoining aviation museum. After our experience in Seattle of Boeing´s museum of flight, I was really curious about how the European counterpart would be like. To get to the Museum, located next to the Airport,…