Antwerpen-Centraal (Antwerp Central) is the name of the main railway station in the Belgian city …
In 2009 the American magazine Newsweek judged Antwerpen-Centraal the world’s fourth greatest train station.
It’s gorgeous. Interesting photos on Flickr.
Click PLAY or watch a flash mob at the station on YouTube. One of the best ever.
I’d totally join in one of those.
Today the Channel Tunnel Eurostar to Newsweek’s #1 train station — St. Pancras, London. At 300km per hour (186 mph).
I’ve stayed a week near Canada Water, at the Thameside Hostel. Low season, the price dropped to £10 / night in the dorm. … Who says London is expensive?
There are some gorgeous canal walks here.
And we’ve not had a drop of rain in a week.
… I’m departing, though, en route to visit friends in Galway, Ireland.
Sadly, I had no time for any sightseeing in London.
Here it is, just outside my bus window.
Greenwich Mean Time adopted as a global time standard. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) …
Astronomers no longer use the term “Greenwich Mean Time”, but what do those geeks know?
The last episode of the 2nd season sees Karl Pilkington on a mission to climb Fuji. … And to come up with an invention — inflatable pants.
I don’t know why I like An Idiot Abroad. It’s absurd. But there are little moments of brilliance.
Karl almost liked Zen Buddhist meditation. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Almost.
PUnditifying from the rogues Press gallery.
All day every day blogging the Olympic Test Meet, final trial for the 2012 Games. I’m posting over on my Gymnastics site.
You can tell by the spelling mishakes and tpyos that I’m the real deal. The people’s press.
Fox is the cheapest national brand in the USA, it seems.
For many cities you can get a vehicle for $50/week. Or even $6/day. … At least that’s what their website claims.
So why was my bill — still cheaper than the competition — more than double what I saw online:
$82 / week
$3.61 SEA Concess
$8.13 Tax SEA
$6.59 WA Rental Tax
$.26 WA MotVehTx
$35 CFC … (explained to be some sort of new building fee)
$3.36 VLF
Of course you are hassled with a scary up-sale of insanely expensive daily insurance options.
All in all, a terrible customer experience. Like this guy had:
On a recent trip to the airport rental counter I marveled at the ability of the Avis/Budget representative to make me feel like a criminal, a moron, and an irresponsible lout gambling with my life all in the space of about eight minutes. Welcome to modern car rental. …
Are there any rent-a-car companies who actually tell you the entire cost? …
Canada must have more rules against deliberately obfuscating prices. The same company prices online are about double in Canada for the same vehicle as in the States.
On the resort island of Boracay in the Philippines you see many of these culturally and age mismatched couples.
I don’t blame you for jumping to conclusions.
You’re probably right. 🙂
Yet some of these couples are in Boracay to be married. Many men of European ancestry, past their prime, look for younger Asian brides.
It’s not always the case that the rich dirty old man is taking advantage of the young, naïve woman from a developing country, more interested in the bulge of his wallet than anything else.
There’s a perfectly innocent story behind some of these photos.
Clipper Ferry – Victoria to downtown Seattle
$75 + tax
Black Ball Coho Ferry – Victoria to Port Angeles
$15.50 + tax
… That’s a BIG differential for a walk-on passenger. Yeesh.
Warren:
Well, we are actually home now and have been for over a week. All in all it was a fantastic trip and I can’t really say I would have done many things differently …
No doubt Warren’s plotting their next escape. 🙂
I’d completely forgotten about this excellent photo taken by my buddy George Novak. We were two of the first few visitors in the gate this day … a few years ago.
Here’s another of George’s Machu Picchu pics.
THANKS George.
Rick McCharles 