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Dubai based Airine bloggers
TampaxTowers Egypt Thailand Blogs Thai-blogs.com - rather serious
2bangkok.com
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not really a blog but always up to date on Bangkok news
Thai
Girl The exotic adventures of a literary
sexagenarian.
Thai Films
Asia Unbound - CFR
Dubai Blogs
dxbae
- picture blog - also Gerald Donovan
The Gulf Blog
Grumpy
Goat Arabic affairs blogs
The Arabist
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Hong
Kong Outdoors In China: Danwei - media and advertising news from China
Shanghaiist.com
Hong Kong Cinemagic
Chinageeks
In Singapore: Xiaxue - self-confessed mean, bitchy, sex goddess who says "wah" a lot!
Mr Brown
- colourful commentary from Singapore
In Burma:
In Canada:
Media:
Tabloid
Watch (UK) Aviation: Amadeus (airline schedules) Airline meals - see it b4 you eat it!
Airliners
- aviation forum, trip reports and pix
archive Planenation - commercial aviation news Airchive - a web museum of commercial aviation.
CrankyFlier - mainly US commentary
Sharjah -
1937
KPAE - Paine Field Blog
Johnny Jet News: The Guardian - UK
Arabian
Business Bangkok info sites: Worthy Sites:
Rconversation - from Rebecca
MacKinnon, ex-TV reporter-turned-blogger.
What Matters - McKinsey
Golf Sites:
Cricket sites:
Alternative
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Other Sports
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Technology Ideas:
Stuff -
gadgets
TNooz - Travel Tech
ViralBlog
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The Rest:
Black
Flamingo - recipes and life (no golf!)
Author
Robert Scott lives and works in Dubai; born in England I have since lived in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. I am very happily married to Tai.
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31 August 2014 Sorry - at home. Uninspired. 24 August 2014 My simplistic view of the ice water challenge - donate money to a charity you care about on your own volition, then don't tell your friends about it. Simple. 22 August 2014 The Good Wife returns Sunday, Sept. 21 at 9/9c on CBS - just so you know! 20 August 2014 Emirates news - Rome will get a 2nd daily A380 on the afternoon flight effective from 29 August. In addition to the A380 change EK is also to introduce a 3rd daily flight to Rome with a 777-300 effective from 26 October. The Rome roster from that date will be:
ek099 dxb0355 – 0735fco
773 d 16 August 2014 The Observer has an editorial today that basically excuses Obama for six bitterly disappointing years. Here is a simple alternative view of his presidency:
# US-sponsored proxy
wars with Russia - still going
***************************** Flew to Newcastle on Emirates - it was the only UK flight with seats available - overnight in Newcastle and then Easyjet to Bristol and a drive from there. Even just 45 minutes on QueasyJet is 45 minutes too long.
************************* Knock it all down and turn it into an urban park with a leisure center at its core. That really is the only solution - because the High Street is dead - replaced by the gloomy Drake Mall and out of town supermarkets.
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So to win the
Premiership: Chelsea
Manchester City And relegated:
Aston Villa QPR and Leicester should be battle hardened enough to survive. 10 August 2014 Person of Interest returns on 23 September 2014 - just so you know! 8 August 2014 State of the middle east: key dynamic still Arab govts against Hamas and Arab public opinion more supportive of it. Too many analysts focus on govts only.
**************** Given current events in Northern Iraq and the FAA's Notam saying US airliners should not overfly Northern Iraq it is surprising that EK has not canceled the Erbil flight immediately. Previous EK flights to Erbil were tankered with enough fuel to return to Dubai if they were not given clearance to land. Emirates has also suspended its services to Conakry until further notice, due to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea. Flights continue to Dakar in Senegal and to Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria. Flights to Damascus, Tripoli and Kiev are also suspended as each have effectively become war zones. 6 August 2014 The joys of getting documents attested for the UAE Be prepared! 5 August 2014 I missed seeing this announced but the UAE and Canada appear to have normalised relations at last : "Canadian passport holders will be granted entry free of charge to the UAE with their visit arrival stamp, again, issued upon arrival in the UAE. No application in advance of travel is necessary. Please know that the Canadian passport will be stamped for 30 days upon arrival." From the UAE embassy in Ottawa. 3 August 2014 flydubai will launch flights to Mashhad andTehran in Iran on 10,11 August 2014 respectively
2 August 2014
""Month-long DSS
celebrations promise unique attractions Toady indeed.... 1 August 2014 So the Thai junta has granted "itself almost unlimited powers of arrest and repression" (Financial Times quote). No one at #thailandbff appears to care. This is the hashtag that has been used by al the free-loading travel journalists, hacks and agents that have been enjoying the Army's hospitality in a desperate attempt to reverse a 37% fall in international arrivals (June 2014 compared to June 2013) at Bangkok's international airport. 27 July 2014
The Bangkok Post on
Thailand under martial law: "For moral points, I’m ready to give up any
idea — to denounce my inner life, to let my prejudices run deep and my
intelligence run low in order to live in a happy stupor forever." 20 July 2014 Rory McIlroy wins the British Open at Hoylake - another Northern Irish winnner - the fourth in eight years I think; 2 x Harrington, Clarke and now McIlroy. No English winner since Nick Faldo a couple of decades ago! Rory won in style but he has had some good fortune this week with the draw and the conditions very much favoring him.
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19 July 2014 Blaming Malaysian Airline or its pilots for the MH17 disaster is both unhelpful and incorrect. This was the status of Ukraine flightpaths on 16 July.
They were fully
entitled and sanctioned to be where they were. 18 July 2014 My entertainment from Stockholm to Dubai was the Discovery Channel drama "Klondike" - which was originally released over 3 nights in North America last year. It is good. Engaging. Not great. But the cold feels real and some of the landscaping shots are fabulous.
But you cannot really
tell a story of the 1897 Yukon gold rush without portraying the inordinate
amount of suffering that went on.
The grim desperation of
life there is lost in the melodrama. 17 July 2014 Back in Dubai...and it feels like I have been away a long time...which other than about 36 hours here between Thailand and Geneva is true.... Things to do and sort out now that I am back!
***************************** "Kiradech Aphibarnrat. The big man lives his life. He's exactly the sort of player the average punter loves to see do well. The sort who looks like he's just jumped the rope to join in. Well, not so much jumped the rope as awkwardly put one leg over it, got in a tangle, then decided to hold it up and squeeze underneath instead. Who needs athleticism? Not me, we've got athletics for that. Anyway, our hero, a go-for-broke gambling type, is already up today: birdie at 3 and he's -1. Might be worth keeping an eye on the big Thai. Last year, on his Open debut at Muirfield, he shot a first-round one-over 72. Then followed it up with an 85. He's not the sort that'll die wondering." 14 July 2014 Emirates will start a Daily 330to Budapest from 27th October as EK 111/112. The flight spends 3 and 1/2 hours on the ground at Budapest due to the relatively short flight time and the need to fit the flight into the EK morning departure bank and late night arrivals.
**************************** 13 July 2014 Live Aid was 29 years ago today. I was in Chicago. Working for Reuters. Helping out at a newly acquired subsidiary. Staying out at the Marriott near ORD. That is a whole different story. But Live Aid was really the first great global concert - where musicians realised that they could offer so much more to the world....
7 July 2014
Emirates (EK, Dubai
Int'l) will suspend its Dubai Int'l to Kiev Borispol service with effect
from August 1. In a statement, the airline said the move was as a result
of the decline in demand for flights to the troubled former Soviet
republic. 6 July 2014 UAE oversupply of property means a correction ahead - says Peter Cooper, editor of Arabian Money in the National today. A correction of 20% to 30% is not unreasonable he suggests.
I fear he is probably
right. Cork Airport is a very pleasant modern facility. Simple, modern, single terminal. Short walk through security to the gate. Excellent. Flew Aer Lingus regional from there to Bristol in an ATR72. 2 July 2014 Leaving Galway today. Thoroughly like this town.
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