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- Saint-Exupéry Airport has a train station of the same name as its hallway. Having never used it myself, I still love it to bits.
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- Are you sure about your destination, Sir?
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- Jet bridges are for sissies. It’s not easy to take plane’s pictures from them either.
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- Good neighbour is
dead neighbour Einstein on a box of Relatively strong mints. In case you assume I bought three seats, I did not. Pure lucky me.
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- Gaining altitude.
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- Fibonacci spiral.
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- The Alps, sweet Alps. The Carpathians are still a long way to go.
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- Almost there.
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- Airport of Henri Coandă (Romanian aviation pioneer), aka Otopeni (nearby town), aka Bucharest (effectively).
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- Still just a baby.
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- Typical example of metropolitan eclecticism.
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- No such thing as too much of a good logo!
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- I would hesitantly agree with those calling it “little Paris” (sometimes), but Venice? Really?
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- Romanian sequence. Invisible Fibonacci is crying in the elevator.
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