Posted by James Raffan
on Monday, February 13, 2012
Credit: James Raffan
I’m jammed in a middle seat on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Ottawa, looking for creative things to occupy my mind to avoid assaulting the large passengers on either side of me who insist on occupying the middle arm rests. One possible way to improve the shining hour would be to draft a Middle Seat Manifesto (MSM) that would outline for my oafish starboard and port colleagues on this flight the fact that the window seat passenger has the window to lean on and the aisle seat passenger has ...
Posted by James Raffan
on Friday, January 27, 2012
No ice here. Just a green, green, green, island and water from here to the pole. Yearly average temperature here ranges from just -5ºC to +9ºC. The sea never freezes. Gyda Birnisdöttir and her family live right on the Arctic Circle — or "Heimskautsbaugur” — on Grimsey, a tiny (5 sq. km) island in the Greenland Sea and the only part of Iceland that touches 66º33’ North. Visitors come to Grimsey by ferry from the mainland and by air (if the planes can find a space amongst the circling Arctic ...
