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The Last DC10

13 November 2013 | Transport

▲ Aircraft geeks fight to get on the first commercial flights on new aircraft – Singapore Airlines auctioned off seats for the first flights on their double-decker Airbus A380 for example. Last flights can also attract a premium and Singapore Airlines tried that too w...

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Kilimanjaro Magic

13 July 2011 | Living

▲ Sometimes you look out the window and the view is magic. Like the morning a couple of weeks ago when I flew with Kenya Airways from Nairobi to Lubumbashi in Congo DRC. Soon after departing Nairobi there, off to the west was Kilimanjaro just poking up above the clo...

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Congo Information

8 July 2011 | The rest

I’ve been kicking around Congo DRC with a sidetrip to the other Congo, Congo Republic (aka Congo Brazzaville). I’ve covered Lubumbashi, Kinshasa, Brazzaville and Kisangani and my final stop was Goma, right on the border with Rwanda. Visas Visas are the big problem...

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Kisangani – at A Bend in the River

5 July 2011 | Places

I’ve been travelling the Congo, starting with a visit to Lubumbashi in Katanga Province. From there I went to the capital Kinshasa and made a sidetrip across the Congo River to Brazzaville the capital of the ‘other Congo,’ the Congo Republic. Then it was back to Kinsh...

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