Dive into the archives.
- On board the Qantas jet that popped a hole at 30,000 feet
At first glance, mobile footage from inside the stricken plane isn’t that dramatic. But it gives you a taste of how quiet and orderly real horror can be.
- Cheek by jowl
It’s rare you step out a football ground to be afforded a fine view of tonight’s dirty dishes in someone’s kitchen sink, but that’s what away fans at Kenilworth Road, Luton, get as they embark down a steep (and rather slippy) staircase.
This is the view out the back of the away end, behind one goal [...]
- In Croatia for a memorable win
The waitress at our hotel here in Dubrovnik was so distracted by the prospect of last night’s England v Croatia match she walked into a wall rather than through a nearby door while carrying our supper in. The collision sent food and crockery flying, minutes before kick-off, but she was fine, and it was understandable.
Any notions that Croatia, already qualified, wouldn’t [...]
- Interesting Dulles
Washington Dulles’ famous mobile lounges. [Image shared under Creative Commons license by Kaptain Krispy Kreme]
Washington Dulles airport is, as it turns out, not dull at all. Opened by Kennedy in 1962, it’s a fine old cathedral to the golden age of air travel, built with an optimism that suggests its designers had greater aspirations than [...]
- BA’s crisis with crisis management
I quite like flying BA, mainly from my experiences on the Edinburgh to London shuttle which I used to take a lot. My opinion of them slipped, far, after an ill-fated journey to the US when the outbound plane was damaged on the tarmac at Gatwick, and the return flight was made on a scabby [...]
- Appeal of the unfashionable Cotswolds
We once lived in Swindon, of course, which makes anywhere in the world that’s unfashionable - with the possible exception of Luton - look like Monaco.
But I do like the Cotswolds, just up the road from where we used to live, and was entertained to see fellow Scot Harry Ritchie defend them in today’s [...]
- Video on the net
I see the weather’s closing in… so I’m off to California. San Francisco through the fog of jetlag on Sunday, Video on the Net the rest of the week in San Jose. Drop me a line if you’re around and fancy a pint of Anchor Steam.
- On holiday
If posting here could be any more sporadic, it will become so over the next week… I’m on holiday, as you’ll see on Flickr. I might be tempted to update more often if the Hilton’s broadband weren’t so breathtakingly expensive - 29 euros a day sets some kind of new record for me, although I’m [...]
- I’m off to see the engines
Seeing a picture on my mother’s blog (truly, we’re turning into the Von Trapps of blogging: my brother Ewan has one too) sends me off on a scout through Flickr for pictures of the Waverley, the historic paddle steamer I spent many happy childhood days on.
Its greatest feature, for me, was the open-sided engine [...]
- Sonic weapons: from comic book to reality
The attempted hijacking of a cruise ship last weekend provoked plenty of interest chez Tosh last weekend, and not just because we’re planning to bog off on a cruise later this week (let’s face it: an attack by modern-day pirates would make for one hellava Flickr collection, wouldn’t it? I might be able to dash [...]
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