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Washington to Cape Town, South Africa with United, Swiss, and South African
Had to head to Cape Town for work, and debated taking Qatar for the service (and crediting to American) but in the end decided the chance to earn some Star credit was too good to pass up. After that,...
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Cape Town to Washington, DC on South African and Lufthansa
Before heading home, only fitting to add a few shots from Cape Town. Like the sunrise view from the Westin Executive Lounge: View of Table Mountain from the waterfront: Another view, this time from the...
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Two days in Nadi, Fiji
Flight landed just a few minutes ahead of schedule at the Nadi airport, which I found out after boarding was under major major construction. Two good things about landing just after 5am: no immigration...
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Funafuti to Nadi and Overnight in Fiji
Slept in a bit, and had one final walk around the town before getting ready to head to the airport. It was maybe a 90 second walk from my hotel to the terminal at Funafuti…the terminal which is huge:...
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Cathay Pacific First Hong Kong to JFK and home on Delta
The best part about The Wing lounge was that I could watch the boarding gate while sipping champagne, and as soon as they announced boarding I could just stroll downstairs and to the front of the line....
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Cairo to Frankfurt with Lufthansa, first night in Frankfurt
Woke up right on time, nice quick check out from the Le Meridien, and a short walk over the bridge over the airport road and I was in Terminal 3. There is a baggage x-ray before you can get into the...
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DC to Barcelona in Lufthansa Business…and how I ended up in Barcelona and not...
After a fantastic 24 hours at home, it was time to head back to the airport and head off to Spain. Staying home for a night was definitely the right call as it allowed me to relax, and just enjoy some...
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Santiago to Buenos Aires in Air Canada 787 business, overnight in BsAs
I had forgotten that one of the best things about southbound/northbound redeye flights with no time zone change is the total lack of jetlag. Ended up going to bed around 10p my first night in Santiago,...
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Morning in BsAs, Buenos Aires to Sao Paulo on Astral Airlines, AmEx Centurion...
After a good night’s sleep thanks to great wine and a beef coma, got up early to do a bit of walking around the city before my evening flight to Sao Paulo. I wanted to get to the airport early and...
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Two Nights in Moscow
Landed at Domodedovo, immigration was a snap: “you are visiting a lot this year, what is the reason?” me: “our countries are great friends now.” him: “why do you speak such good russian” me: “I”m sure...
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Cairo to Frankfurt with EgyptAir and Lufthansa, overnight in Frankfurt
After a very good night’s rest, it was up early to take care of a couple meetings before heading over to the airport. I checked out the Le Meridien club lounge to hopefully find a bit of breakfast,...
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Frankfurt to Dresden by train, overnight Dresden
First, sorry for the delays in continuing with this trip report. It will probably come as a surprise to absolutely nobody that I’ve been traveling the last week. Jetlag was finally wearing off by this...
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Hamburg to Frankfurt by train, overnight in Frankfurt
Woke up in the morning, and saw the first two trains of the day to Frankfurt had already been canceled. This was an ominous sign. The weather definitely seemed better today, but the worst of the wind...
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Frankfurt to Boston with Lufthansa first
It had been a great vacation, albeit a bit odd for me to spend more than a week in one country! Despite all the rushing from city to city, having to figure out and explore multiple new cities, it...
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Six Days in Mexico City – Part One
I just realized that I had way more pictures from Mexico City than I thought I did, so I’m going to break this up into two pieces. The first will be the five days I was there for work, while the...
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DC to Mexico City with Delta and Aeromexico, overnight in Mexico City
So, a bit of a background. First, as I’ve mentioned before, this trip came about because of an incredibly good business class fare from New York to Santiago, Chile. Two things that make that...
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Paris to Tunis with TunisAir A330 op by GetJet
Thanks to the jetlag which was worse than usual I woke up pretty early and managed to go for a short few mile run around Paris before heading back to the hotel for breakfast. I have to admit: I was...
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