Tag: Travel
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Airport Meltdowns – New Flighty Features
Global airports status map, Flighty app, April 8th, 2026 Flighty is a great app for frequent travelers. Getting flights to track in is easy, you can track friends’ flights, and it has so much data you can use to both figure out when your flight leaves and just peek at fun stuff like how many…
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Where to stay in Amsterdam
People often ask me where to stay in Amsterdam that’s fun, but not full of tourists and drunk people. Here’s what I tell them. You should stay in De Pijp or the Jordaan. These are the neighborhoods just outside of the touristy part of city center that still have all the things you’re thinking of…
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20 years of business travel – you’ll get there, or you won’t
The first thing is, the travel industry changes very slowly. What changes most frequently is the interior decorating. The seats in planes, the plugs in hotel rooms, the signs in airports. Even these don’t change structurally, just in aesthetically. The biggest change in 20 years has been Uber. I started traveling in 20051 which meant…
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“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver
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Do rooms have coffee machines? That is a quick heuristic for picking hotels for work travel, probably any travel. When the answer is no, the rest of the hotel experience is more likely to be a let down. (Germany is an exception. They seem to be really into tea.)
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Brisket in London
Smoked brisket in London from Smokoloko. It wasn’t too great, but I had some travel salt packets, so added enough salt to make it OK. They seemed to have some end-pieces which looked better, but I ordered “brisket” thinking I’d get slices.
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