For me, as a European-born person who is also Canadian by choice, traveling from Japan to Australia is an awesome thing to do: You practically reach the end of the Far East, the end of Asia – and you are surprised to find yourself almost like back home in the Western World … including the […]
A short evening flight of 1 ½ hours took us from Beijing over Seoul (which is completely lit up at night and looks like a giant mega-city from the air) into Kansei airport near Osaka in Japan. The train ride to Kyoto took almost the same time as the flight and the Japanese train compartment […]
A truly golden morning greeted us for what was going to be the biggest event day for N7W so far. As predicted by the coffee grounds in Istanbul, the weather gods must definitely be on our side! Probably the only completely still morning in six months in the mountains north of Beijing…and with perfect air […]
After a comfortable overnight flight from Munich to Beijing (I personally like long-haul night flights because they give you a chance to rest properly as opposed to shorter ones), we arrived to nice but extremely windy weather. I guess the flying Chinese flags we are used to seeing in the media are really being blown […]
As the day broke, the rain that had soaked Granada during the night stopped and dawn announced itself with some clear spots in the sky! Were we again going to be lucky? I couldn’t believe that the Turkish coffee grounds should one more time prove to be right! As the airship crew got their things […]
Sunshine in England, contrary to expectations – and our expectations were, unfortunately in this case, also contradicted in Spain! We arrived at Granada airport to pouring rain … and with small chances of weatherimprovement for next day. The late afternoon was spent deciding on the take-off location for the airship. Our very friendly and, I […]
We got up before sunrise with an overcast sky but no rain, ideal to have best chances to fly our airship. Yes, the wind was coming from the Channel over England’s plains, meaning that our biggest concern was not being able to rig our airship! (I often talk about the weather because its conditions are […]
We arrived at Heathrow airport to the most pleasant warm fall weather that felt like summer… But the weather forecast for the next day told a different story. Indeed, in the late afternoon the sky over the green English countryside became covered with clouds and it started to rain. Because I was trying to hook […]
The Turkish coffee grounds again proved right, the sun came slowly through the clouded sky and our event day turned out bright and sunny. Just for fun, as we were taking some better photos and film shots around the Tower, out of the blue I said to Steffen, our cameraman filming the making-off of the […]
We arrived in Paris under dark skies. Charles-de-Gaulle airport still feels like a futuristic city, some thirty years after it was built. After we had found our simple hotel in the (what else?!) 7tharrondissement (this refers to the unique and, for outsiders, somewhat confusing neighbourhood system in Paris that looks like a snail on the […]