Barcelona, February 2024
Just a quick post to show a couple of photos I took in Barcelona, last February: the Sagrada Família seen from my hotel and a nice close-up of Torre Glòries at night, located in the Poblenou neighbourhood.
Brussels, May 2024
Brussels was the first city I was able to visit while on a layover since I started my aviation career in 2007. And since that time it has always been a favorite of mine. Operations for Brussels Airlines out of Brussels to Africa destinations were very common in my ACMI days.
I think Brussels has so much to offer to a visitor: nice architecture and museums, beer, waffles and chocolate, moules-frites, places to have fun by night, etc...
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Comics Art Museum
I started my rest day in Brussels with a visit to the Comics Art Museum which has been on my Brussels to-do list for such a long time! Of course you can't escape from Tintin and its creator Hergé.
I was very surprised to find a comic strip on display about the big 1755 earthquake in my hometown - Lisbon:
The ticket for an adult has a cost of 13 € - a little bit expensive in my opinion - but all in all it was a good way to spend some time.
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Jeanneke Pis
On this layover I was able to finally spot the famous Jeanneke Pis statue/fountain. Usually the focus is put on the Manneken Pis statue which I had already seen plenty of times. Maybe because Jeanneke Pis is placed in a dead end street it doesn't get much attention as its counterpart.
However, that dead end street is also where you can find a very famous beer bar in Brussels: the Delirium Café.
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Central Brussels
Next couple of photos show the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula and also the Galerie de la Reine part of the Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries complex.
And finally a photo taken at the iconic Grand-Place (which was overcrowded because it was the Ascension public holiday) and another one of the tower of the Town Hall seen from distance.
I don't know why but I am usually blessed with good weather and blue skies in Brussels. Of course I ate one gaufre au chocolat and by the end of the day I felt good with another pleasurable stay in Brussels. Looking forward to coming back again.
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| Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph |
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| Sonic Runway |
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| City Hall |
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| Sentinel Building |
New York, January 2022
When I decided to move back to the narrow-body fleet I had this thought: of all intercontinental destinations I just need New York to be happy! And I still have it flying the A321LR. These photos are still from the years when I belonged exclusively to the wide-body fleet. Almost every time I'm in New York I'll walk so many kilometers on foot and I won't ever get tired of doing it. Even if it's winter and freezing cold, like this time!
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| Airbus A330-900 |
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| Newark Liberty & Manhattan view |
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| Spirit Airlines |
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| Rockefeller's ice rink |
Brazil, September 1993
This is a footage of a flight I did with Transbrasil in the early nineties:
London, March 2011
In 2010, after spending a few days there, London became my favorite european city and a place where I'll always be happy to return to.
One year later I took a friend with me for a nice layover there and we decided to visit the east part of the city, including Canary Wharf and the London City Airport.
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Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is part of London's central business district with modern architecture buildings.
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Thames Cruise
After spending the day in the east side of London we decided to return on an upstream boat trip on the river Thames.
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| Tower of London |
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The Big Ben
We reached our destination near the Big Ben. London Eye was lit in blue color and the moon was full.
Then it was time to return to the Heathrow airport area on the west side where our hotel was located and get ready for another early wake-up.