24h plane travel
I always found this animation fascinating. It depicts the various planes during a 24h cycle. You can see the massive transatlantic traffic, the line from South America over to their former mother countries, the enormous air traffic in the United States… I’ll be one one of these soon again! Read More
NZ Road Trip
I have been busy planning my road thrip through New Zealand in the past weeks, and I think I am pretty close to sorting it all out. It’s prime travel time in NZ, the backpackers are everywhere and the hotels and hostels are pretty full, that’s why it took some time to plan it… It’s […] Read More
Heading east
It’s time to say good bye, Australia! It’s been fantabulous! I’m flying to New Zealand today. For more adventures! Here are the flight statistics: Flight 16 to Auckland Date: 22/02/2014 Code: ANZ124 from MEL to AKL Airline: Air New Zealand Plane: Boeing 777-300ER Distance flown: 1820 Miles Duration: 2h55 Read More
Back to Melbs
Zigzagging across Australia, it’s time to head back to Melbourne for two final days. On Saturday I’ll head back east to New Zealand for three weeks in Auckland and two weeks of driving around. It got a slightly bit rocky at one point and I saw we did quite a detour.. but all fine here. […] Read More
RTW Part Two
On we go… I had the rough itinerary in my mind for a long time, but it took a couple of intense sessions of playing around with the Star Alliance Round the World App to figure it out… But here it is, the projected itinerary for the second trip around the globe, starting in June […] Read More
Returning to Sydney
Next flight coming up as I head back to Sydney for ten days on Monday. Here are the flight statistics: Flight 14 to Sydney Date: 01/02/2014 Code: QFA1020 from HBA to SYD Airline: Qantas Plane: Boeing 737-800 Distance flown: 744 Miles Duration: 1h35 Read More
On to Tasmania
After five weeks in Melbourne – time flies ! – it is time sot see a little bit more of Australia. Today I am flying on to Hobart, capital of the state of Tasmania, and possibly the furthest South I’ll go, depending on what I’ll do in New Zealand. Here are the flight statistics: Flight […] Read More
And on to Melbourne
After only two days in Sydney I’ll head on South, to Melbourne. Melbourne had been one of the corner stones in the planning of this trip. It’s one of the places I have been most impatient to see and live in. In the next couple if days I’ll stay in St. Kilda with my friends, […] Read More
Down under
The flights to Australia were good. I am always a bit scared of flying, albeit I am fascinated by it. But night flights, especially over water, are a bit scary to me. Now I was looking at nearly 13 hours non-stop over water, with maybe one or the other secure landing strip in a couple […] Read More
Heading south again
After a two-day stop in San Francisco, I’ll be heading south again today, to Auckland and then on to Sydney, where I will meet my friends Sven, Kevin and Rajiv from Brussels. This is going to be the longest flight so far. And I’ll fly over the international date line and skip a day. I […] Read More