Remembering The Titanic in Cobh

Cobh remembers Titanic 

Cobh located in the magnificent natural splendour of Cork Habour will always be associated with the Titanic, for that very reason they hold  each year a  memorial service for those that lost their lives on board the ill-fated ship.  The service took place on this Sunday, April the 15th.  It marked the poignant occasion the 106 year anniversary since the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.

At 3:00pm a colour party from the Cobh O.N.E. Branch lead a procession from the Cobh Urban Offices at Lynch’s wharf to the Titanic Memorial in Pearse sq., as those gathered paid their respects to the passengers from all over the world that boarded the doomed ship at Cobh, Titanic’s last port of call.

The  Irish Naval Service Officers  Male Voice Choir performed throughout a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial. From there the proceedings move to the Promenade, near the long-lasting Heartbreak Pier. Not far from Commodore Hotel and Cobh Holiday apartments.  It was from this location that the passengers left to board the ship in  Cobh.

It was from this location that the passengers left to board the ship in  Cobh.

These passengers would later die in the cold waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, Their names were read out as the gentle sounds of Island Strings played ‘Nearer My God to Thee’.
The hymn is that  alleged to be last song the band played on Titanic before the ship sank.
After a decade's long search, 2 portions of  the Titanic were found lying upright in two sections virtually four hundred miles south off Newfoundland in 1985.


Successive dives on the vessel have found no proof of a huge gash thought to have been ripped within the ship’s hull by an iceberg.
It’s believed a series of thin tears caused a separation of joints within the ship’s hull structure resulting in its sinking.
Nowadays cruiseliners from around the world dock in Cobh. Recently the largest ever liner to visit arrived. The MSC Meraviglia with 5700 guests arrived.  She is 167,600 gross tonnage. 
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Take a quick look at Culinary delights of Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington 

Flying into Wellington for the first time you quickly get a feeling for the terrain around the capital of New Zealand.  The expanse of ocean separating North and South Islands.  The hills surrounding this maritime location.   Even in fine weather, I get the feeling as the winds are always swirling this is a tricky landing and approach.

The city of Wellington is cool, adorable, culinarily honoured and conservative. Wherever you are in the Kiwi capital, odds are you're a 10-minute walk from spot you need to be.

You'll require all of the activity you can get the chance to stir your food craving: Wellington is stuffed with cool bistros, boutique nourishing restaurants and eateries. It has excellent accommodation with motels upmarket holiday rentals Wellington style. Yes, all that you need in a city break.

Here's a recommended schedule for a few days of restful investigating and a ton of eating (on the off chance that you don't venerate nourishment, perhaps you should attempt another city). With everything so shut, there's a lot of time to simply sit and notice the espresso. All costs are in New Zealand dollars.

Arrive Friday :

Check your hotel or holiday rental the city centre is  a 8km drive from the aeroplane terminal most accommodation is in a prime position.

7pm: supper

Just strides into Post Office Square is Charley Noble, a major and clamouring bistro helmed by gourmet expert and proprietor Paul Hoather that has some expertise in wood-terminated cooking.  If hungry look at  a 500g grass-bolstered Prime Angus ribeye on the bone.  The champion dish is a wonderfully delicate charcoal-simmered chicken bosom on a spread of cauliflower with truffle margarine.

Saturday

8am: breakfast

Owned by siblings Jesse Simpson and Shepherd Elliott, Ti Kouka Cafe in Willis Street is one of those uncommon spots where energetic individuals get enchantment. Jesse runs the front of house and dishes out the espressos, in the kitchen Shep – who has worked at top Wellington eatery Logan Brown and for the Sydney-based whiz gourmet expert Tetsuya Wakuda – serves up breakfast, informal breakfast and lunch with an overwhelming accentuation on neighbourhood, practical and natural produce. Shep is lit up by nourishment: here he discusses his cooking reasoning and the inceptions of Ti Kouka. Breakfast offerings incorporate warm white polenta porridge with broiled rhubarb, pistachios and cinnamon; sautéed beans and grains with goats curd, lemon, kale, mint, harissa and a poached egg; a cheddar omelette with caramelized leeks, sumac, tamarillo chutney and rocket; and a dry-cured bacon sandwich. The bread originates from the siblings' other wander, the Leeds Street Bakery, which is celebrated around the world for its to kick the bucket for salted caramel treats.

On arrival I'm ready to taste "Aporkalypse Now", Ti Kouka's entrance in Burger Wellington, the city's yearly skirmish of the bun and one of the sustenance celebration's most mainstream occasions. Joining moderate cooked whiskey coated pork bear, soda bacon and apple with smoked grill mayonnaise, hot sauce, crackling and pickles, it's a delicate, delicious, crunchy fistful of yum. In the event that you don't influence it to Ti To kouka for breakfast, arrive for lunch.

9.30am: strolling visit

A great idea is the  Zest Food Tours' every day Capital Tastes excursion is a piece far from Ti Kouka at the I-SITE guest data focus, at the side of Victoria and Wakefield lanes. $179 gets you three and a half hours of meandering, tasting and snacking in the organization of an intense Wellingtonian, finding out about the city's history, design and activism.

We cross the City to the Sea Bridge – on foot connecting
Civic Square with the waterfront. Our first stop is the base camp of Mojo, one of those espresso roasters, in a noteworthy shed on the quay. We see off camera, at that point take a seat for a measure of the house mix, Dr Mojo's Medicine, with a chocolate florentine.

Next we hit Gelissimo, causing a buzz with sparkle oblivious gelato made for Welly on a Plate and the Lux light celebration. At that point, we proceed onward to Hannahs Laneway, home to Fix and Fogg nutty spread, Wellington Chocolate Factory and the Leeds Street Bakery, among others.

We wind up at Moore Wilson's, Wellington's culinary experts shop. It stocks an essentially stunning cluster of nourishment from nations over and around the globe. On an excursion to Waiheke Island, I learnt that Kiwis know their sustenance, however this place is past my imaginings. I bring home a parcel of  dried pineapple powder, essentially in light of the fact that I'd never known a wonder as this existed.

1pm: Cuba Street

After a visit that way, there's a valuable minimal shot you'll be needing lunch, so now is a decent time to look at Cuba Street, six or so somewhat pedestrianized squares of boutiques, buskers and bohemia. (This being Wellington, there are bars and diners in abundance in the event that you signal.)

2pm: make brew

The city's speciality brew scene has detonated in the previous five years. The best place to test a drop is the Third Eye, Tuatara bottling works' "sanctuary of taste", in Arthur Street.

There's additionally a warm welcome at Golding's Free Dive in Leeds Street, an eccentric room beautified with brilliantly shaded old odds and ends – there are container light shades and the canopy over the bar is made of old skis. Food can be requested from the neighbouring Pizza Pomodoro.

The Ranginui entryway outlined by Robert Jahnke in the marae (meeting place) at Te Papa


No outing to the Kiwi capital is finished without a hour or more in the national exhibition hall, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. There's a seismic tremor test system, a Māori marae (meeting place), the skeleton of a dwarf blue whale and the half-ton body of the biggest goliath squid caught to date.
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April 9th 2018 Airline News from Around the World

The purpose of my written journey today is to provide the reader with interesting  Airline news from around the world.  I am hoping the information will also be useful and help with a further internet search or research

I recently travelled from Auckland to Dubai with Emirates a journey slightly short of 17hours.   It was onboard an Airbus 380.   The journey wasn't that unusual for me as I have in the past completed 13 hours and 14 hours with Emirates to the East Coast of Australia.

Quantas for some time has been planning there own long-haul route.  On Saturday they launch a daily service linking London and Perth, becoming the first non-stop regular link between the UK and Australia. This will boost visitor numbers in both cities.   Serviced apartments in London will be even more in demand.

Interesting when Qantas created the Kangaroo Route between London and Australia in 1947, it took four days and nine stops. From 25 March 2018, it will take just 17 hours from Perth non-stop.

QF10 will depart London Heathrow at 13:30, arriving into Perth at 13:15 the next day. The Qantas 787-9 Dreamliner will then fly on to Melbourne.

The route will become the first non-stop passenger service to directly link UK - and Europe - with Australia, replacing the airline’s existing Melbourne-Dubai-London service.

At 14,498km, it will also become the second longest flight in the world.  The longest flight in the world is by Qatar Airways  who presently operate Doha, Qatar to Auckland, New Zealand. The flight can last up to a  18 hours 20 minutes

Speaking at Routes Asia 2018 in Brisbane, Australia’s assistant minister for trade, tourism and investment Mark Coulton said the route was a landmark for air services to the country.

“The development of ultra-long aircraft is a game-changer,” he said. “It will open up numerous opportunities going forward as the convenience and appeal of a non-stop flight cannot be underestimated.

“A 25-hour flight with a break in the middle is obviously less desirable than going non-stop.”

Coulton said that Australia is enjoying record tourism growth with 8.81 million international tourists spending AS$41.3bn during the past year and new air services, such as the London-Perth route, will further strengthen the country’s economy.

Lyle Brownscombe, senior manager network strategy at Qantas, agreed that technology will play a key part in shaping the Australian flag carrier’s network in the future.

“Probably the biggest change in our strategy is with the Perth-London route - that’s a big step and it’s because technology is only just enabling us to do that,” he said.

“It will connect two really big markets with a non-stop service - we think this is the start of a new frontier of really interesting opportunities.

“When you look at big unserved markets, they are all really long distances.”

Brownscombe said he hoped Project Sunrise - Qantas’ challenge to Airbus and Boeing to develop an aircraft capable of operating non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York - would become a reality by mid-2020s.

QF10 facts

14,498km flight will take approximately 17 hours (slightly more or less depending on winds)
Longest flight on the Qantas network, followed by is non-stop A380 Sydney-Dallas service (13,730km)
Will be the longest Boeing Dreamliner flight in the world
Adds to Qantas’ list of flying firsts, including the first passenger jet services across the Pacific in 1959 with a B707 and the first (and only) non-stop passenger flight from London to Sydney in 1989 with a B747-400
Conrad Clifford, the regional vice-president for Asia-Pacific at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), added that advances in aircraft technology will open up further ultra-long-haul routes in the coming years.

“The Perth-London non-stop that Qantas is introducing is really interesting,” he said. “It highlights how advances in technology can make long-haul city pairs viable.

“Thanks to new fuel-efficient aircraft, it means the whole long-haul story has a new chapter ahead of it. You can potentially put together two long-haul secondary airports and make the route work.”

To match the Quantas news Emirates their service partners were quickly out of that starting gates.

Emirates in late-June 2018 have scheduled one-time 2-class Airbus A380 service on Dubai – London Heathrow route, reflected in recent schedule update. On 24JUN18, the 615-seater aircraft will operate EK005/006 service, replacing 3-class aircraft.

EK005 DXB1545 – 2015LHR 388
EK006 LHR2215 – 0805+1DXB 388

A further announcement shows the following  service adjustment
Etihad Airways last week made further service adjustment on Abu Dhabi – Ho Chi Minh City route, as the airline schedules last flight on 30AUG18. This route is operated by a mix of A330-200/-300 aircraft, served 3 times a week (6 weekly until 11APR18)

EY441 AUH0820 – 1900SGN 330 247
EY440 SGN2025 – 0055+1AUH 330 247

Finally last week for Germans hoping to enjoy a villa in Marbella or rental apartment in Benalmadena.  Ryanair announced a  partnership with Laudamotion, including the launch of Berlin Tegel base from June 2018. From Berlin Tegel, Laudamotion/Ryanair will offer 17 routes. These routes will be using Laudamotion’s OE-coded flight numbers and Ryanair’s Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Reservation is available on Ryanair’s website.

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