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flying in the name of god

Day 89: Kate boards the Iran Air Fokker 100. We took three such flights: Tehran to Yazd, Shiraz to Esfahan and Esfahan to Tehran, and flew in a Fokker 100 each time. Air travel in Iran is incredibly inexpensive by international standards. None of our flights set us back more than $30, and each replaced […]

alexandria to sharjah with air arabia

Day 79: A night spent in transit with Air Arabia from Alexandria to Sharjah, and then connecting from Sharjah to Tehran the following day. Once we boarded the plane, Air Arabia did everything right, but even so very little sleep ensued.

from london to athens

we tubed it to Victoria Station, jumped the Gatwick Express to the airport, checked in early for our flight to Athens with the budget airline EasyJet

sydney to darwin

If you want to be waited on hand and foot, fork out an extra $4000 to go to Business.

leaving sydney airport

It doesn’t quite feel real but Kate and I are sitting here in the Qantas Club lounge waiting to be called for the flight to Mumbai.

a tale of two cities: mumbai and oslo

On our first two nights away we’ll be staying in two cities that are among the richest and poorest in the world.

pre-planning

Day -34: By now, planning for the trip is well underway. In fact, we’ve been planning for the trip in some shape or form since, in a flash of inspiration, we starting saving up for it more than four years ago.
After listing all the places that we wanted to visit, we needed to cut it […]