Category Archives: Travel

CROSSING THE CHANNEL by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2012 – 1:24 am

I had moved away from Boston in 1971, but every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985, when n art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the […]

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Flying With The Windows Down

September 28, 2012 – 7:53 pm

Last Monday a small electrical fire forced the airplane carrying Mitt Romney’s wife to make an emergency landing in Denver. The passengers escaped from the stricken jet without injury and later on stage at a political rally the GOP presidential candidate expressed his relief that his wife was safe and then said, “When you have […]

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Panic At 39,000 Feet

September 26, 2012 – 9:05 am

Millions of passengers fly on commercial airplanes every day. Most flights reach their destinations without incident, but not all of them, so before take-off stewards and stewardesses stand in the aisles to give safety instructions accompanied by a video. They point out emergency exits and demonstrate how to put on life vests and air masks. […]

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Flying For Fun PAN AM

September 26, 2012 – 8:38 am

Pan-Am was America’s airline, connecting the north and south continents, then island hopping across the Pacific to Manila and then straddling the Atlantic to London and Paris. I flew them often to Boston from New York back in the 1970s. The service wasn’t up to the fabled clipper class of the past, but they got […]

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Beautification of Pattaya

September 8, 2012 – 10:46 am

On March 31, 1995 Mayor Guiliani closed the last porno parlor on 42nd Street. Patrons of the peep shows cried on the sidewalk. Drug dealers, hustlers, and whores were evicted from their territory by policemen. Even panhandlers were forcibly advised to find another spot to milk the city’s human kindness. Times Square was exorcising its […]

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