Two planes were forced to circle over a Greek island awaiting permission to land on Monday after an air traffic controller overslept and was late for work, Greece’s civil aviation authority said.The Transport Ministry launch a probe into the incident at the airport in the island of Lesbos that delayed a domestic flight from Athens […]
Rick Eaves follows the great Aussie game all the way to the Top End.Travellers tend to seek out their community when far from home. Finding myself as far from the hallowed turf of the MCG as was possible without actually leaving the continent, I had begun to pine for the leather and liniment of the […]
A new breed of buses has hit the streets of Indonesia, the Jakarta Post has reported. The ‘Komodo’ buses, named after the remote island and its reptilian inhabitants, are predominantly locally made, costing an estimated IDR3 billion (US$322,000) less that imported buses, and benefitting the local community.The buses will be adorned with images of the […]
The Anchor Marina, Palm Jumeirah’s first marina, is on track to open in December, the Gulf News has reported developers Island Global Yachting (IGY) as saying. IGY also confirmed that it will launch an exclusive online auction site to lease its 590 berths to residents of the Palm. Anchor Marina will provide berths for private yachts […]