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Month: June 2018 (Page 1 of 3)

Tomorrow is the start of the 2018 Golden Globe Race from Les Sables d’Olonne

2018.06.30 /

From Sail World:

17 sailors from 12 countries will set out from Les Sables d’Olonne on Sunday, on a 9 – 10 month solo odyssey, to re-create the original Sunday Times Golden Globe race in 1968/69.

The 17 starters (1 female, 16 male) are:

  • Abhilash Tomy (IND) Suhaili replica Thuriya
  • Antoine Cousot (FRA) Biscay 36 Métier Intérim
  • Are Wiig (DEN) OE 32 Olleanna
  • Ertan Beskardes (GBR) Rustler 36 Lazy Otter
  • Gregor McGuckin (IRE) Biscay 36 Hanley Energy Endurance
  • Igor Zaretskiy (RUS) Endurance 35 Esmeralda
  • Istvan Kopar (USA) Tradewind 35 Puffin
  • Jean-Luc Van Den Heede (FRA) Rustler 36 Matmut
  • Kevin Farebrother (AUS) Tradewind 35 Sagarmatha
  • Loïc Lepage (FRA) Nicholson 32 Laaland
  • Mark Sinclair (AUS) Lello 34 Coconut
  • Mark Slats (NED) Rustler 36 Ohpen Maverick
  • Nabil Amra (PAL) Biscay 36 Liberty II
  • Philippe Péché (FRA) Rustler 36 PRB
  • Susie Goodall (GBR) Rustler 36 DHL Starlight
  • Tapio Lehtinen (FIN) Gaia 36 Asteria
  • Uku Randmaa (EST) Rustler 36 One and All

Some reasons travel can lead to a more successful life

2018.06.30 /
  • Fear of the unknown can drive ambition.
  • You won’t be afraid to try something new that can expand your horizons.
  • You are more likely to see the big picture.
  • If you travel on vacation, it will improve your overall health.
  • Networking can help establish relationships that will benefit other parts of your life.
  • Advanced planning, and planning for unknowns, can lead to project completion.
  • Done right, immersing yourself in other cultures can lead to a higher level of perspective.

Two Cities, One Airfare

2018.06.30 /

Airline carriers are offering free or discounted hotel rooms, meals, museum admission to passengers who want to spend some time in places they are connecting through.

From the NY Times:

George Hobica, an airline industry analyst, said that attractive stopover programs, created for destinations where the airline is based, are a growing trend. “Stopping in your connection city on the way to your final destination used to have an extra cost, but now, layovers are increasingly free and come with additional freebies for travelers like hotel stays,” he said.

Carriers are paying more attention to their stopover programs, Mr. Hobica said, because they help boost tourism in the country where the airline is based and increase the airline’s business at the same time. “Having good stopover programs generally don’t cost airlines a lot because they usually collaborate with local tourist boards and hotels to create them,” he said.

The world’s safest countries to visit

2018.06.27 /

The Gallop organization, a research firm based in the USA, asked citizens of 142 countries about their confidence in local policing, feelings of safety while walking alone and personal experiences of crime.

Gallup interviewed more than 148,000 people for the 2018 report. Gallup’s rankings are based on residents’ own sense of security.

1. Singapore

2. (tied) Finland, Iceland, and Norway

5. (tied) Hong Kong and Uzbekistan

7. (tied) Canada and Switzerland

9. Indonesia

10. (tied) Denmark, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Austria, China, Netherlands, Egypt

More at CNN

June 23

2018.06.23 /

1940: Henry Larsen, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was the second to sail the Northwest Passage, crossing west to east, having left Vancouver 23 June 1940 and arriving at Halifax on 11 October 1942.

The Finns are the happiest people in the world, they just don’t know it

2018.06.21 /

According to the 2018 World Happiness Report, Finland came out on top, but the Finnish people don’t necessarily agree. I think they just don’t know it.

According to the 2018 World Happiness Report, based on research conducted by Gallup, Finland is the happiest country in the world. The Finns are not so sure about the result, though – being, as they are, a typically stoic sort of people.

“Nordic people, and the Finns in particular, are emotionally introverted,” explained Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, an independent think tank in Denmark that studies happiness and wellbeing. “They rarely rank highly on expressions of joy or anger – they are very different in that way from people from Latin America, for example, who have a more exuberant emotional expression as a people. For [the Finns], happiness is more about living a reserved, balanced and resilient life.”

Tervamäki agrees, saying, “I have very contradictory feelings about the happiness survey. Finnish people read it and laugh, like ‘What? Us?’. What comes to my mind is that Finnish people are content more than happy.”

Read more at the BBC

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