CAIRO – So, I did finally make it to Cairo. Here’s how.
After waking up late on Wednesday, I sauntered down to the lobby of the NH Hotel near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam just in time to miss the end of (ahem…) lunch (I did say it was late). However, i peaked into the abandoned restaurant […]
Waiting… some more… in the KLM lounge at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Cairo flight is delayed another three hours… let’s see… how many drinks is that?
AMSTERDAM I left Toronto Monday evening about 9 PM on a KLM flight to Amsterdam… was supposed to leave at 6:05 pm but, well, we didn’t. At first, we couldn’t […]
A lovely fresh salad greeted guests to the annual Marine Ball in Dushanbe on Nov. 22nd. Cucumbers and tomatoes are actually fruits, n’est-ce pas? My own photo is trapped inside my locally purchased cell phone, so I’m grateful to Marit Rasmussen for this photo. (c) 2008 Marit Rasmussen.
DUSHANBE — It’s Sunday evening at La Grand […]
TORONTO — So, Monday morning in one of the nicer coffee/bakery places close to home here in Toronto (Artisano’s on Islington for the locals) I walk in and order coffee and a “Classic Back Bacon on a Bun” as I am, occasionally, wont to do.
As usual, I stress that I want the Classic back bacon […]
This is posted out of sequence. It relates the story of my most recent travel from Kabul to Dubai to Dushanbe at the beginning of February. Just catching up!
DUBAI — My colleague (William, the Project Manager) and I are booked on the 3:30 AM Tajik Air flight from Sharjah (about 30 minutes from Dubai in […]
TORONTO — In a somewhat unusual PR move, the International Association of Business Communicators (the purportedly global association that purportedly represents self-described “business communicators” – i.e. public relations, employee communication, corporation communication, photographers, publicists, webmasters, hairstylists, parking valets, etc.) sent out a broad email to current and former Canadian members boldly announcing, with considerable pride I […]
DUSHANBE — Just a quick post to say that, after arriving in Tajikistan and plugging in at the UNDP office here, my Vonage Softphone is working well. My guess is that either the firewall at the London hotel in which I was staying, or a lack of bandwidth there, was the root of my problems […]
ISTANBUL – I left London this morning at 11:25 AM after the most glorious turbulence between the analog and digital ages.
Arriving at the departures area of Heathrow’s Terminal 3, I dutifully lined up at the Turkish Airlines counter to check in and begin my journey. As entirely expected, my bags were grossly overweight and, following some […]
LONDON — I am a 21st Century global traveller and proud of it.
In preparation for my work overseas, I bought a brand new BlackBerry 8830 Worldphone from Telus, my cellular phone carrier, so I could make and receive calls, send/receive emails, GPS my way through unfamiliar streets and generally connect to the Big Giant Brain from […]
LONDON — I have written before about mass crowd communication — especially at places such at airports where there are, even on normal days, masses of people moving quickly through large public spaces. My last published thoughts about this special form of communication — largely conducted through the media of fixed and dynamic signage as […]