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I fly , a photo by jroxa on Flickr. Sähköpostiini kilahti Norwegianin lentomatkoista bonuspisteet. Minnehän sitä lentäisi? Bonusten kieltäminen mahdollisti Norwegianin synnyn Asuin Norjassa, kun Norwegian alkoi lentää Norjan sisäisiä lentoja. Syynä perustamiseen oli, että Norjan kilpailuvirasto kielsi bonuskortit maan sisäisessä liikenteessä. Kova päätös, sillä se merkitsi valtion osin omistaman lentoyhtiön (SAS) piilomarkkinointituen lopettamista. Lentomatkustajalle, joka lensi paljon Trondheimista ympäri Norjaa, bonusmatkojen poisto oli kuin lottovoitto. Lentolippu Bergeniin saattoi pahimmillaan maksaa tuhansia kruunuja, putosivat hinnat yhdessä yössä muutamiin satasiin. Parhaimmillaan kymppeihin. Lentämisen ekologisuudesta voidaan puhua paljon, mutta tervetuloa junamatkustajaksi Norjassa. Siitä saa hyvää "slow-televisiota", mutta kiireiselle matkustajalle juna on poissuljettu vaihtoehto. Autoilu taas. Tervetuloa huonossa kunnossa oleville kapeille ja mutkittele...

The City During the holidays I visited Cambridge, my daughter's home city for a year. Everybody knows the town for its university, but surprisigly few have visited there although it lies only 80 kilometres to North East from London. A train takes you there from The King's Cross Railway Station in 50 minutes. One way ticket for four persons (from which one is a junior) costs around £75. It pays back to reserve an off-peak ticket in advance. Cambridge seems much smaller city thinking that it has 130,000 inhabitants. It's a beautiful city with old pictoresque houses. It can easily be experienced in a short couple day weekend holiday. You can walk all the major spots within a day and everything is close to each others. Our Hotel I had reserved a Queen Size room for us. The hotel, Double Tree by Hilton, proved to be an excellent hotel with outstanding service. We arrived to the city later than expected, because the queue for the Lond...

Phantom of the Opera Today I had the best steaks of my life in a restaurant among the creme de la creme of the London bankers. Yesterday, Phantom of the Opera blew my mind off in Haymarket. Two, definetly the best experiences of their classes in a two days on a row. And with extravagant prices. Were they worth of it? Definetly. Although these are the bills I will pay down for a while, the experiences were something you remember the rest of your days. Our seating for the musical couldn't have been better. Fourth road of the first balcony and in the middle of the scene. We got everything; nuances of the faces of the actors and the overall staging. Perfect! Royal Circle D 23-. It was the place to catch everything. The smallest details of the lighting and splendid craftmanship of the scene & lightning - and the finesses of the actors, who would with their singing overcast many of the professional operas. Only negative thing were Asians which ...