TANKS Travel Tales - a travelogue.......

Inflight Magazines....... Whichever airline I flew with, I usually look forward with eager anticipation to reading their inflight magazines. Reading these magazines help me spend my time during the flights. This is especially true during long haul intercontinental flights lasting 10 hours or more. Of course, we can also watch the many movies available as part of the inflight entertainment system. But there is definitely a limit to the number of inflight movies I can watch whilst seated in an economy class seat on a long haul flight.  Reading inflight magazines allow me to enjoy a comfortable way to spend those long flight durations in economy class. It also serves to broaden my mind, help me learn more about places which I have not visited and provide me with inspirations on new travel destinations. And these magazines have the added advantage of helping me to cut down on the need to bring along more personal reading materials thus resulting in less weight and space needed ...

While on transit at Frankfurt International Airport in February 2017, I spent the relatively long layover time between my flights admiring the planes parked on the tarmac and the gates. This is a picture of a handsome A340-300 plane at the gate. The photo was taken from the McDonald's restaurant (B Concourse) with my trusty phone camera while I was enjoying my breakfast on a cold morning on 19 February 2017. On business trips, I seldom bring along my DSLR  camera as I prefer to travel light for work.  This particular Lufthansa plane bears the registration D-AIGN and is an Airbus A340-313 decorated with the Star Alliance livery. Lufthansa Airbus A340-313 at Frankfurt International Airport, Frankfurt, Germany (2017) Zoom-out view of the Lufthansa Airbus A340-313 at Frankfurt International Airport, Frankfurt, Germany (2017)

Publishing and posting online while travelling; the art of keeping in-touch I am late on this article for my regular Travel Bits series by almost 3 weeks! Reason being I was travelling for business from mid-Feb and only returned home yesterday. The hectic work schedules during the trip as well as the long flight times and exhausting layovers at airports while on transit simply sap most of whatever energy that was left in me. Thus, despite promises to myself to be regular in publishing my articles while being away, I somehow didn't manage to adhere to that self-imposed rule. ;-) Instead, what I usually do is just to post a couple of pictures of the interesting or inspiring encounters I had while travelling. These "moments' were captured in time and space by my trusty phone companion and are one of the little ways to stay in touch with my readers whenever I am on the road. Usually, these "moments" photos are accompanied by some short write-ups on how a...