Blog posts about flight at Permanent Tourist

Dreaming of flight

…and where better to realize a childhood dream than in the Swiss Bernese Oberland? U.K. band Rudimental chose to film a large amount of the video for their recent release “Free” (featuring Emili Sandé) in the Alps of the Jungfrau Region and not only is the song lovely, but the accompanying video sequences are sublime.

Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.

If you’ve been following my Twitter stream today, you’ll probably know that while I should be almost in Scotland by now, I am, in fact, still on Swiss soil. After the third early start in a row, when we headed for Geneva to catch our flight to Edinburgh for a two week holiday with family, the plague of flight cancellations finally reached us and scuppered our plans.

I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I’d fly above the trees Over the seas in all degrees To anywhere I please [Source]

Coming in to land

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

Thanks to a new work client, I and two colleagues got a free 20 minute helicopter flight from Gsteigwiler (near Interlaken) up to the Eiger and back yesterday afternoon. Video clips also online at www.youtube.com/mhowells

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