St John’s:

Two Atlantic Crossings

29 October 2012 | Transport

A quick trip London-Boston-London to speak at the new state-of-the art Boston Hostelling International place, 480 beds, many of them in private rooms, lots of communal space and facilities and neatly squeezed between Chinatown and the Theater District and a stone’s th...

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First Atlantic Crossing, First Jet Lag

2 December 2009 | Transport

In 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic. And experienced the first case of jet lag. ◄  In November Maureen and I drove from Galway to Clifden on the west coast of Ireland. Just north of Ballconneely, 4km south of Clifden, we s...

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