Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Buskers on the Tube

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Ted Emmett, TfL busker Hearing music floating up the escalators on London's tube always gives me a lift, even when going down, not u...
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

More interesting things from Japan

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Automatic chain barriers to parking lots Ok, I admit they aren't a necessity, but these chain barriers are pretty neat. When a car com...
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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Paris CDG Terminal 2E architecture

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It seems to be a obsession. I am documenting the new airports of the world... Here is the 2E K-gates terminal building at Charles de Gaull...
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Friday, 15 June 2012

FOUR things England should borrow from Japan

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1. Lowered passenger-side windows on trucks/lorries In Japan as well as England, bicyclists risk getting squashed by trucks turning left....
Saturday, 2 June 2012

LHR Terminal 5 & Madrid

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Last time I travelled, I commented on the new tray delivery system at Heathrow's Terminal 5 security (in gleeb goes to Toronto ). This t...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Russell Square tube station: another icon

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Along with Edgware Road tube station on the Bakerloo Line, Russell Square tube station on the Piccadilly Line is another of the iconic produ...
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Sunday, 8 April 2012

The "Barnes Dance" crosswalk in London!

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A year ago, the papers in Colorado were full of emotive laments that Denver was going to eliminate "Barnes Dance" crosswalks. Thes...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012

Tickets & barriers in British train stations

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Britain is a country that has traditionally operated on the honour system. You did what was expected of you without question. But that old m...
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

gleeb visits Toronto: standing on Scotland

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Scotland used to be part of North America – a continent called Laurentia. The opening of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean around 55 million y...
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Saturday, 24 March 2012

gleeb goes to Toronto: 'Visit Britain' posters

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The last things I expected to see when arriving In Toronto were "Visit Britain" posters plastered everywhere on the subway. And th...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

gleeb goes to Toronto: LHR Terminal 5

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First experience of Terminal 5 at Heathrow; judgment: very nice! It was cavernous – more so than Terminal 4 and somewhat like Stanstead. And...
Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Famous Author on East Coast Trains

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What an interesting idea! East Coast trains (now owned by the public since GNER was forced out of its franchise by National Express, who the...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Edwardian experience in Edgware Road station, London

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The Edgware Road station of the Bakerloo Line takes one back in time to the early 1900s. It has the iconic facade of several of the London u...
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Thursday, 17 November 2011

Deplaning Etiquette

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I've been travelling (traveling) recently and have pondered the etiquette of how to empty a plane of passengers. In the United States, i...
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Friday, 28 October 2011

A Trip to the Seaside

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When I heard we were going to Gibraltar Point last weekend, I thought it was an awfully long way to go for a two-night stay. But it turned o...