JFK 18 Oct 2019 All in the name of efficiency: Friday tip on how to unintentionally make friends at airports. Picture the scene: Airport security, pretty busy, couple hundred people in line. Finally my turn. I go through that machine where you raise your arms [...]
Oslo - Drammen train 19 March 2019 My commute, the music edition: Is there anything more annoying than people loudly phone-fighting with their significant other on the train? This one is just across from me, face 1 metre from mine. Young girl, maybe 20, looks [...]
Örebro, Sweden 21 September 2018 Not my commute, part... whatever: Fångad av en stormvind. That Eurovision tune is called 'Captured by a Love Storm' in English. And I am indeed captured by a storm. Not a lot of love going on here, though. Just a [...]
Malbun, 28 August 2018 I'm driving from Zürich to Chur today, and as I’m going past anyway, I decide to stop off in Liechtenstein. Just a whim. Have a cup of tea. Maybe open a bank account. It’s like Switzerland, y’know. On steroids. (Although, to [...]
Rafiq Hariri airport, Beirut 18 May 2018 Folks, today I’ve been so far out of my comfort zone, I might never find my way back in. ‘My Commute’, episode 2: ‘Not Exactly My Commute’. Now, the greatest danger in Lebanon is not armed lunatics (that’s [...]
Oslo 3 May 2018 I'm thinking of starting a series, peeps: Let's call it "My commute". Here's the latest episode: After a looong day, I’m waiting for the train home. Loads of time, so I sit down with a coffee at a plug-point, setting the [...]
Herzogenbuchsee 21 April 2018 After a day in Lucerne, I'm on the train back to Geneva, sitting across from a group of Americans. The loud sort; physically unable to speak softly, I think. In the niiiicest possible way (in accordance with my newly adopted 'kill'em [...]
