Cumulus Airport

... ? Who? I..I..I feel awful! Been flying for 5 hours the sun is bright, the sky below is displaying the perfect example of Cumulus Mediocris Radiant (Cloudspotters Guide, its boring but its a part of my life). Breakfast!Is it? You could tell me that I was ...

... Fri and Sat. I enjoyed my last Finnish breakfast buffet this morning, complete with dark rye sandwiches and pickled herring - yum!!  and now I'm at the airport awaiting my flight. The airport here isn't quite as nice as YVR, but HEL isn't too bad ...

... nbsp;has teeth or somethin’.  Whilst waitin’ to pick up Richard the cinematographer at the airport yesterday morning, before starting the looooooooooong drive to Katherine, I thought you might be well interested to know ...

Morning on the far side of the Pacific was a real spectacle. Cumulus clouds flattened against the stratosphere appeared to be giant fungi against the rose horizon, or else strange relatives of the jelly fish, thrusting through the cloud cover like ...

... belt, shoes, and who knows what else!!! The team flew to Brisbane on Virgin Airlines, and transferred to the International Airport by a very disappointed taxi driver.  After an eventful check-in, the team made their way through customs and ...

... a lovely park on the cliff edge with great views over the Adriatic. Sat on a park bench and watched the ocean and a bank of cumulus clouds building on the horizon. Walked to the top of the park where there are the some ruins; of what I don’t know. ...

... of section lines and farms.  About half way to Dubuque, IA, our next stop, we encountered a wall of low-level broken cumulus clouds just a couple of thousand feet above the ground. Since we were above them, it was very smooth. We are heading ...

... greeted by a throng of people offering us all manner of transport to any imaginable point on peninsular Malaysia. Navigating through the airport's touts, we sift our way through, and grab our taxi bound for the Renaissance Hotel, smack dab in the centre ...

... clouds began to bubble up gradually, until we were in sight of Fiji and suddenly we were flying over a nice thick blanket of cumulus. We began a steep descent and after a flight-time of three hours we had landed in an overcast Nadi (pronounced Nandi). ...

... as we climbed the mountain road to San Cristobal. Below and to our right was a long, wide valley with a huge mass of castle-like cumulus cloud on the horizon tinged pink in the sunset. Very beautiful. The drive takes 45 minutes, but it took almost as long ...

... in Lhasa to anyone's standards is a shock to the system. The landscape of course was gorgeous, with island-sized cumulus clouds literally perched on mountaintops along the valley against a backdrop of blue. After checking in Tibet at the Yulong ...

... Queens.  It is no wonder Israel's national airline, El Al, has four flights daily between Tel Aviv and New York's J.F.K. airport.     First job, collect 10 kilos of lettuce and bag them.  Other jobs that day included pruning okra ...

... nearly heart-stopping when you realize just how far up you are. We are truly walking in the clouds now, as fluffy trains of cumulus batter past us constantly and the wind is chilling to the bone. The bare rocks are stained with mosses and lichen and the ...

... ) aircraft. This allows it to land and take off from  a narrow rock ledge. This is fortunate, as Lukla International Airport is in fact a narrow rock ledge, complete with steep sides dropping of into a deep gorge. STOL actually means semi-controlled ...

... Acropolis on a mostly sunny day at the Pella Inn, just near the Monastiraki metro stop. That afternoon, with beautiful puffy cumulus clouds and crisp skies, we went to the Acropolis for views across Athens, walking up slippery marble steps worn from ...