Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Next week I’m flying R***air to Northern Ireland for the Baha’i summer school. This particular airline, in addition to charging extra for everything, only allows 15kg of checked baggage. So I’m shall be glad to have this advice by the head butler of London’s Lanesborough Hotel to hand when I pack.
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…I’m visiting the Baha’i community in this part of the world.
Where?
Got it yet?
62°00′N 06°47′W
Does that help?
More when I get home!
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I’m off to Stockholm tomorrow morning for the weekend. But before that, some more pictures of our recent snow. I took the pics the morning after the snow had fallen.
Stockholm trip
I haven’t been to Stockholm since I was 16 in about 1963. I was part of an exchange of school students that summer. Bo Cöster, [...]
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After a wonderful week at the Baha’i World Centre, I shall be returning from a warm (if somewhat humid) Haifa to a much cooler London tomorrow. Then it will be back to the old routine and some time to write a blog post or two.
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries people travelled on foot for months or by train and steamer for days to get to Akka or Haifa to visit the Baha’i World Centre. It took me around 14 hours travel all told from the UK. It would have been rather quicker, had the flight from London [...]
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I shall be trying Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 for the first time today as I pass through on my way to foreign parts.
I’m not sure of my schedule while I’m away, but I may not be able to blog. I know I’ve been a bit erratic recently (so what’s new?), but a week of quiet [...]
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It’s over 220 miles from Welwyn to Lancaster. Yesterday I caught an early train from Welwyn North station to Sandy (in Bedfordshire), where I met up with Moojan and Wendi Momen to travel in their car to Lancaster University. We were all, together with Nazila Ghanea, going to give presentations at a seminar organized by [...]
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Amazingly I got through airport security at Heathrow very quickly (it was early in the morning and Terminal 4 was quite empty). My flight was completely problem free – left on time, arrived on time.
So now I am here:
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Snow at Helsinki airport. Photo © John Barnabas Leith under a Creative Commons license.
Come Thursday I’m going to have put up with the stressful business of negotiating the “security” checks at Heathrow airport before boarding a flight to foreign parts.
This New York Times op-ed highlights the absurdities and irrelevance of much of the current “security” [...]
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