60.50 Central Europe: A Narrative of the Return Journey plus a Few (very) Pictorial Highlights.
We are passionate about long, stimulating and meaningful airplane journeys. Quite often these days, we seem to be undertaking ‘long’ ones, but less so if at all, of the stimulating and meaningful flights. At the outset, we offer our admiration and wonder of flight. That a plane can lift off laden with baggage, hundreds of passengers, its own weight, fuel and supplies in addition to much else is constant puzzlement to us which is why we feel so humbled by the concept. Sitting in a seat some 35,000 feet above the ground or ocean, traveling at close to the speed of sound is beyond understanding even to those who undertake flights on a regular basis. I remember an airline pilot of 747's echoing a similar thought. It’s pure wonderment. Prague. I often ponder while sipping a soda in this miraculous position (I don’t mean squashed in an uncomfortable seat for up to 15 hours is miraculous although on second thoughts, it could be). ‘Why am I sitting and drinking fr...